Stoker 1st Class JAMES HOLLORAN D/K 59542, Royal Navy who died age 56 on 22 January 1944 Son of Francis and Mary Holloran; husband of Lily Maude Holloran, of Stonehouse, Plymouth. Remembered with honour FORD PARK CEMETERY (FORMERLY PLYMOUTH OLD CEMETERY) (PENNYCOMEQUICK) CWGC :: Cemetery Details
R.I.P James Holloran, RN CL1, Would his age not have precluded him from service? Looks like he was UK based no other info regards Clive
James Holoran was my grandfather. He was often too I'll to take up active duties but from what I have heard he was still enlisted at the outset of WW2, he died from TB as did his wife Lily before the end of the war. They had a son who died age 16 in 1942, killed in action on the Arctic Convoys. Their daughter Eileen (my mother) died in 1974. That is all I know of this family, if anyone has any more family information I would love to know more.
OK Firstly your grandfather England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 Name: James Holoran Death Age: 56 Birth Date: abt 1888 Registration Date: Mar 1944 Registration district: Plymouth Inferred County: Devon Volume: 5b Page: 384 Secondly your Uncle UK, Commonwealth War Graves, 1914-1921 and 1939-1947 Name: Maurice Gordon Holoran Age: 16 Birth Date: abt 1926 Death Date: 14 May 1942 Cemetery: Naval Memorials In The United Kingdom Plymouth Part V Burial Country: England Father: James Holoran Mother: Lily Maud Holoran Regimental Number: PLY/X 3915 Region or Memorial: Memorial Register Other Records: UK, British Army and Navy Birth, Marriage and Death Records, 1730-1960 Name: Maurice Gordon Holoran Event: Death Birth Date: 28 Sep 1925 Birth Place: Devonport, Devon. Death Date: 14 May 1942 Death Age: 16 England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007 Name: Maurice G Holoran Registration Date: 1925 Registration district: Devonport Inferred County: Devon Re-registration Year: 1925 Mother's Maiden Name: Jeffery Volume Number: 5b Page Number: 402 UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current Name: Boy Bugler Maurice Gordon Holoran Death Date: 14 May 1942 Cemetery: Plymouth Naval Memorial Burial or Cremation Place: Plymouth, Plymouth Unitary Authority, Devon, England Has Bio?: Y URL: https://www.findagrave.com/mem... And finally your grandmother England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 Name: Lilian M Holoran Death Age: 54 Birth Date: abt 1892 Registration Date: Mar 1946 Registration district: Plymouth Inferred County: Devon Volume: 5b Page: 454 TD Forgot to add the bit about HMS Trinidad - HMS Trinidad, British light cruiser, WW2
1939 REGISTER TRANSCRIPTION Holoran Household (4 People) 6 Bottom Stonehall, Plymouth C.B., Devon NAME - DOB - OCCUPATION James Holoran -14 Sep 1887 - Stoker RN Lilian M Holoran - ? Nov ? - Unpaid Domestic Duties Sorry, this record is officially closed. Eileen (M) Osbiston (Holoman) - 20 May 1929 - At School
From Naval-history.net: 20th March-3rd April - Convoy PQ13 and Return QP9 - These next two convoys set out around the 20th, again covered by the Home Fleet. Off North Cape on the 24th "U-655" was rammed and sunk by minesweeper "Sharpshooter" escorting QP9. Of the 19 merchantmen in this convoy all reached Iceland in safety. PQ13 and its escort, including cruiser "Trinidad" and destroyers "Eclipse" and "Fury", were scattered by severe gales and heavily attacked. On the 29th three German destroyers encountered the escort north of Murmansk. "Z-26" was sunk, but in the action "Trinidad" was hit and disabled by one of her own torpedoes. As the cruiser limped towards Kola Inlet an attack by "U-585" failed and she was sunk by "Fury". Five of the 19 ships with PQ13 were lost - two to submarines, two to aircraft, and one by the destroyers. "Trinidad" reached Russia. 14th/15th May - Cruiser "Trinidad" (above - Navy Photos) was damaged escorting PQ13 in March, and patched up at Murmansk ready for the homeward journey. Escort was now provided by four destroyers and cover by more cruisers, but on the 14th she was heavily attacked from the air and hit by a Ju88 bomber. Fires got out of control and "TRINIDAD" was scuttled next day in the cold waters north of Norway's North Cape. Tim
