9th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (British Army)
Date Of Birth:
17/07/1891
Died:
01/07/1916 (Killed in Action)
Age:
24
Summary
Joshua Holland was the son of Joshua and Elizabeth Holland. He was born on 17th July 1891 at Greystone, County Tyrone. His father died when he was six. By 1911, 19 year old Joshua was living and working in Carrowbeg, Benburb, Tyrone. He was working as a servant for the Irwin family. Private Joshua Holland was with the 9th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action at the Somme on the 1st July 1916, age 24.
Further Information
Joshua Holland was the son of Joshua and Elizabeth Holland. Joshua Holland and Elizabeth McMullan were married on 6th December 1887 in the district of Dungannon.
Joshua Holland was born on 17th July 1891 at Greystone, County Tyrone, within a mile of the Cumberland brothers. He was the second of four children, three surviving.
Family: Joshua Holland, Elizabeth Holland, Robert John Holland (born 13th June 1889), Joshua Holland (born 17th July 1891), Mary Ellen Holland (born 22nd November 1893), Thomas Holland (born 16th May 1896, died 3rd February 1901, age 4).
Joshua’s father died on 4th March 1897 in the Dungannon area, aged 35. Joshua was six years old.
The 1901 census records Joshua as 9 years old and living with the family at Mullintor, Minterburn, Tyrone. His father had died. His mother was a domestic servant.
By 1911, 19 year old Joshua was living and working in Carrowbeg, Benburb, Tyrone. He was working as a servant for the Irwin family.
Joshua Holland enlisted at Randalstown.
Private Holland arrived in France with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on 5th October 1915.
Private Joshua Holland was with the 9th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action at the Somme on the 1st July 1916, age 24.
Private Joshua Holland has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. The Thiepval Memorial, the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, bears the names of more than 72,000 officers and men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before 20 March 1918 and have no known grave. Over 90% of those commemorated died between July and November 1916.
Private Joshua Holland is commemorated locally on the Roll of Honour in Brantry Parish Church.
Private Joshua Holland is also commemorated on Dungannon War Memorial.
The CWGC notes that he was the son of Mrs Bessie Ferguson, of Guinness Cottage, Caledon, County Tyrone, which intimates that his mother remarried.
