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Lou Holmes (footballer)
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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.
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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]
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The Late Capt. L.G. Holmes.
Captain L. Gordon Holmes, only son of Dr. Holmes, of Norwood,
has died from wounds he received in the Dardanelles.
Captain Holmes, who was well known as an athlete, left Adelaide
as a Lieutenant of the 10th Battalion, and was promoted to captain
in Egypt, where he was A.D.C. to Brigadier Maclagan, on the head-
quarters staff of the 3rd Brigade, with Major Brand.
Captain Holmes was born in Tasmania and educated at Wesley
College, Melbourne, where he gained his blue for football and rowing.
He attended the University [of Adelaide], where he had a success-
ful scholastic career, and on the athletic side he was in the University
rowing and football teams.
He also rowed in the South Australian crew.
Captain Holmes before the war was studying for a military career.
He was widely popular.
The Adelaide Chronicle, 17 July 1915).[7]
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.[8]
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Death
He died on 23 June 1915,[9][10] on the hospital ship H.M.H.S. Gascon,[11] of the abdominal shrapnel wounds that he had sustained in action on 16 June 1915.[12][13]
He was buried at sea on 24 June 1915, three miles from Gaba Tepe.[14]
Commemorated
He is commemorated at the Lone Pine Cemetery near Gallipoli, Turkey.[15]
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