Lou Holmes (footballer) explained

Lou Holmes
Fullname:	Louis Gordon Holmes
Birth Date:	7 July 1892
Birth Place:	Launceston, Tasmania
Death Place:	Gallipoli, Ottoman Turkey
Originalteam:	Launceston
Statsend:	1910
Years1:	1910
Games Goals1:	1 (0)

Louis Gordon Holmes (7 July 1892 – 23 June 1915) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League. He was killed in Gallipoli in World War I.

Family

The son of Louis Saengar Holmes (1859–1926),^{[1] [2] [3]} and Lucy Mary Holmes (-1935), née Newton,^{[4] [5]} Louis Gordon Holmes was born in Launceston, Tasmania on 7 July 1892.^[6]

Football

Following his VFL career, Holmes moved to South Australia and studied at the University of Adelaide, where he received a double blue for Rowing and Australian rules football.^[7]

Death

He died on 23 June 1915,^{[8] [9]} on the hospital ship H.M.H.S. Gascon,^[10] of the abdominal shrapnel wounds that he had sustained in action on 16 June 1915.^{[11] [12]}

He was buried at sea on 24 June 1915, three miles from Gaba Tepe.^[13]

Commemorated

He is commemorated at the Lone Pine Cemetery near Gallipoli, Turkey.^[14]

See also

• List of Victorian Football League players who died on active service

Sources

• Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
• Over a Precipice: Green Hill Road Accident: Motorist's Wonderful Escape, The (Adelaide) Journal, (Tuesday, 7 January 1913), p.1.
• Captain Louis Gordon Holmes, The AIF Project, UNSW Canberra.
• First World War Nominal Roll: Captain Louis Gordon Holmes, collection of the Australian War Memorial.
• First World War Embarkation Roll: Lieutenant Louis Gordon Holmes, collection of the Australian War Memorial.
• World War One Service Record: Captain Louis Gordon Holmes, at National Archives of Australia.
• Roll of Honour Circular: Captain Louis Gordon Holmes, at Australian War Memorial.
• Roll of Honour: Captain Louis Gordon Holmes, at Australian War Memorial.
• Wesley College Roll of Honour: Captain Louis Gordon Holmes.
• Virtual War Memorial Australia: Captain Louis Gordon Holmes.

External links

• • • Photograph: 1914 Group portrait of the original officers of the 10th Battalion prior to leaving Adelaide for Egypt, collection of the Australian War Memorial – Lieutenant Louis Gordon Holmes is third from the left in the back row.
• Photograph: Outdoor group portrait of officers of the 10th Infantry Battalion using a wagon as a grandstand to watch a battalion sports carnival at Mena Camp Egypt, Christmas 1914, collection of the Australian War Memorial – Lieutenant Louis Gordon Holmes is fourth from the right.

Notes and References

1. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article105206548 Medical Board, The (Adelaide) Daily Herald, (Friday, 15 December 1911), p.4.
2. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36044020 Deaths: Holmes, The Burra Record, (Wednesday, 21 July 1926), p.2.
3. http://www.launcestonfamilyalbum.org.au/detail/1030671/louis-saenger-holmes Louis Saengar Holmes
4. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38318821 Marriage: Holmes—Newton, The Launceston Examiner, (Monday, 30 July 1888), p.1.
5. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51925481 Deaths: Holmes, The (Launceston) Examiner, (Thursday, 28 March 1935), p.1.
6. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39468996 Births: Holmes, The Launceston Examiner, (Saturday, 16 July 1892), p.1.
7. Web site: Grant . Allan . The Fallen Heroes of the St Kilda Football Club . Footy Almanac . Footy Almanac . 6 May 2020.
8. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5474337 The Fifty-First Casualty List, The (Adelaide) Advertise, (Tuesday, 13 July 1915), p.9.
9. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article89145022 Died on Active Service: Holmes, The (Adelaide) Chronicle, (Saturday, 10 July 1915), p.31.
10. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C394970 Photograph: Hospital Ship Gascon at anchor
11. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5473085 Forty-Sixth Casualty List, The (Adelaide) Advertise, (Thursday, 1 July 1915), p.9.
12. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50824141 Personal Particulars, The (Launceston) Examiner, (Friday, 9 July 1915), p.5.
13. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C973083?image=1 Photograph (1915): "Bodies of the dead on stretchers covered by Union Jack flags being transferred from the decks of the hospital ship Gascon to trawler for burial at sea."
14. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/717359/holmes,-louis-gordon Captain Louis Gordon Holmes