African American, Company C, Alaska Highway. Born: 31 March 1922, Draper, Pulas, VA. Died: 4 December 1999, Dallas, Texas. Enlisted: 27 November 1945, Ft. Lewis, WA, Regular Army, Quartermaster Corps.
Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: Manufacture electrical machinery and in 1940 he worked with CCC Camp Co 354. His father was Howard Patrick (Reed) Holmes and his mother was Margarite K. Holmes. He married Lillian Elizabeth on 2 January 1945 in Roanoke, VA.
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