Five: Sergeant E. F. Holland, 11th Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps, was killed in North Africa on 4 February 1941

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (552383 Cpl., 11-H.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed, mounted for display, nearly extremely fine (5) £140-180

Sergeant Ernest Frank Holland, 11th Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps, was killed in the act of lifting a mine near Slonta, 4 February 1941, aged 29 years. He was buried in the Benghazi War Cemetery, Libya. He was the son of Frank and Alice Holland, of Swindon Village, Gloucestershire.

The vendor at an O.C.A. Reunion in the mid-1990’s recalls speaking to ex-S.S.M. ‘Tom’ Cobly who was with Sergeant Holland when the mine exploded. ‘... he got a large piece of shrapnel in the neck severing the jugular as I carried him back to a safer area, the blood just drained from him and he died in my arms before I could put him down.’ With copied research.