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),Medical Board, The (Adelaide) Daily Herald, (Friday, 15 December 1911), p.4.Deaths: Holmes, The Burra Record, (Wednesday, 21 July 1926), p.2.Louis Saengar Holmes, Launceston Family Album. and Lucy Mary Holmes (-1935), née Newton,Marriage: Holmes—Newton, The Launceston Examiner, (Monday, 30 July 1888), p.1.Deaths: Holmes, The (Launceston) Examiner, (Thursday, 28 March 1935), p.1. Louis Gordon Holmes was born in Launceston, Tasmania on 7 July 1892.Births: Holmes, The Launceston Examiner, (Saturday, 16 July 1892), p.1.
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.
Death He died on 23 June 1915,The Fifty-First Casualty List, The (Adelaide) Advertise, (Tuesday, 13 July 1915), p.9.Died on Active Service: Holmes, The (Adelaide) Chronicle, (Saturday, 10 July 1915), p.31. on the hospital ship H.M.H.S. Gascon,Photograph: Hospital Ship Gascon at anchor, collection of the Australian War Memorial. of the abdominal shrapnel wounds that he had sustained in action on 16 June 1915.Forty-Sixth Casualty List, The (Adelaide) Advertise, (Thursday, 1 July 1915), p.9.Personal Particulars, The (Launceston) Examiner, (Friday, 9 July 1915), p.5.
He was buried at sea on 24 June 1915, three miles from Gaba Tepe.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.", collection of the Australian War Memorial.
Commemorated He is commemorated at the Lone Pine Cemetery near Gallipoli, Turkey.Captain Louis Gordon Holmes, Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
See also List of Victorian Football League players who died on active service
References
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.