Henry Charles Holland, dad’s father, was born 9th June 1878 and migrated to Australia with his mother and 3 siblings. Marion, Elizabeth and Grace. Henry Charles’s father had come earlier some time between 1883 and 1885, when he sponsored his family to join him. He was listed as a Ship’s Steward in the Middlesex Census or 1881, so it’s possible he may have arrived in Australia as a crew member,.
The family arrived in Sydney aboard the Energia, when Henry Charles was 8 years old. His mother, Catherine (Sawford)Holland Married: St Philip, Battersea, Wandsworth, England on 1 Jun 1873. She was aged 21)
Henry Charles is buried in Wentworth, as according to his grandson, John Vincent (Grace’s son) “It was Hilda who didn’t want him to be buried with his first wife Rose in Cobar and that is why he is buried in Wentworth. It is disappointing to think there are still people like that today. “
Also buried with their parents, is Elizabeth Leticia Rose Holland. She was HC’s sister, born 16th Nov 1881 (later known as Rose Dunstan) Her father was identified as “Mariner in the Trumbly Service”. She had an interesting life, becoming a nurse and joining the AIF in 1917, towards the end of the war. She only married late in life, to Edwin CF Dunstan in Sydney 1934 Reg. No. 369/1934. Rose died in 1956 in the district of Marrickville. Reg.No. 30327/1956.
I have very little information on Henry Charles’ early life with his siblings, though we did meet two of his Aunts in Cobar when we were small. I believe they were his Aunts Grace and Addie (Adelaide) *** photos to add
Henry Charles and his siblings
The children of Henry Henry Holland (8.7.1851) and Catherine Holland Catherine Holland (8.11.1849)
Marrion (Marion) Catherine born 27.12.1873 died 1943 (Ingram?)
Henry Charles born 9.6.1878 died 1956 (granddad)
Elizabeth Leticia Rose (Dunstan) born 16.11.1880 died 1956
Grace Hannah (Collingburn) born 4.8.1882 died 1976
Herbert George born 30.12.1889 died 1958 (father of Keith Holland, fighter pilot)
Maude Lilian (Garroway) born 6.5.1891 died 1970
Adelaide (Addie) Gladys (Hickford) born 27.2.1894 died 1975
Alfred William born 3.5.1887 (1897?) died 1972
Elizabeth Letitia Rose Holland
Elizabeth was the 3rd child, one of the four who arrived in Australia in 1886 with their mother
Baptism Record
| Name: | Elizabeth Letitia Rose Holland |
| Gender: | Female |
| Record Type: | Baptism |
| Baptism Date: | 2 Feb 1883 |
| Baptism Place: | All Saints, Poplar, Tower Hamlets, England |
| Father: | Henry Holland |
| Mother: | Catherine Holland |
| Register Type: | Parish Register |
Birth officially recorded as 1880
| Name: | Elizabeth Letitia R Holland |
| Registration Date: | 1880 |
| Quarter of the Year: | Oct-Nov-Dec, as the April 1881 Census recorded her age as 4 months. |
| Registration Place: | Wandsworth, London, England |
| Parishes for this Registration District: | View Ecclesiastical Parishes associated with this Registration District |
| Volume: | 1d |
| Page: | 697 |
in the Australia, World War I Service Records, 1914-1920
Rose enlisted in 1917. This is her enlistment record.
| Name: | Elizabeth Letitia Rose Holland |
| Age: | 36 |
| Birth Year: | abt 1878 |
| Birth Place: | Wentworth, New South Wales Not correct, she was born in Wandsworth, London, England |
| Dossier Year Range: | 1914-1920 |
| Rank: | Staff Nurse |
| Mother: | Catherine Holland |
Rose married Edwin Dunstan when she was 53. Edwin arrived in Australia on the SS Ballarat, alone, aged 37, so he would have been around 47 when he married Rose. He was listed as a salesman and was previously married in 1919 in England. His first wife’s name was Nellie Lilian Bartholomew and she died in Dec 1923. Rose died 4th October 1956 and is buried with her parents and her brother Henry Charles in Wentworth.
Marriage
| Name: | Elizabeth L R Holland |
| Marriage Date: | 1934 |
| Marriage Place: | Sydney, New South Wales |
| Registration Date: | 1934 |
| Registration Place: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Spouse: | Edwin C F Dunstan |
| Registration Number: | 369 |
Death and Burial Record
| NAME: | Rose Dunstan |
| GENDER: | Female |
| DEATH DATE: | 4 Oct 1956 |
| DEATH PLACE: | Wentworth Shire, New South Wales, Australia |
| CEMETERY: | Wentworth Cemetery |
| BURIAL OR CREMATION PLACE: | Wentworth, Wentworth Shire, New South Wales, Australia |
| HAS BIO?: | Y |
| FATHER: | Henry Holland |
| MOTHER: | Catherine Holland |
Keith Ross Holland
Like four of Henry Charles’s sons, his brother Herbert’s son Keith Ross Holland served in WW2, but was lost over Germany in 1944. was a flying officer in a photographic reconnaissance unit. (Link War Service for dad and his brothers & Uncle Carl)
This photo of Keith Holland was also in Aunty Helens things along with a newspaper piece about him. He was a F
lying Officer during WW2 and was killed in Action over Germany, 27 October 1944. Keith was dad’s first cousin. Australian War Memorial, Roll of Honour: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1720733
And from Trove: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/206794496?searchTerm=Keith%20Holland
Flying Officer Keith Ross Holland, of Curlwaa (Vic.), has received the Distinguished Flying Cross.
This is the Information from the Australian War Memorial in Canberra about Keith Ross Holland.
Here are the details of a photograph of Keith: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/SUK11895
From around March 1944.
Description:
Portrait of 410234 Flying Officer (FO) Keith Ross Holland DFC, RAAF, 540 Squadron RAF, born in Wentworth, NSW, at RAF Station Benson. FO Holland, a surveyor and civil engineer before enlisting in Melbourne on 5 December 1941, embarked for training in Canada under the Empire Air Training Scheme on 23 June 1942, arriving in the UK on 27 March 1943. After service with the RAF’s 543 Squadron, a photographic reconnaissance unit flying Spitfire aircraft, he underwent conversion training to fly Mosquito aircraft and joined No. 540 Squadron RAF, another photographic reconnaissance unit, on 28 October 1943. He flew reconnaissance missions from RAF Benson, Oxfordshire, and, between November 1943 and February 1944, from RAF Leuchars in Scotland. While based at RAF Leuchars he flew photographic reconnaissance missions over Denmark and the German Baltic coast, including the Peenemunde flying bomb base; he also flew over Berlin in daylight to obtain the first photographic evidence of the destruction of the city following the Allied raids on the city. For this work he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross; the citation in the London Gazette of 7 March 1944 mentioned his ‘courage on numerous operations against the enemy’. From RAF Benson, he performed reconnaissance of targets as far as Beslau, Leizig, Poland and Italy. He was lost on operations when his aircraft crashed at Steinfeld, near Rostock, Germany, on 27 October 1944, while heading for the Stettin-Berlin area to carry out further photographic reconnaissance.
Keith Ross Holland
in the Australia, World War II Military Service Records, 1939-1945
| Name: | Keith Ross Holland |
| Birth Date: | 24 Sep 1922 |
| Birth Place: | Wentworth, New South Wales (Reg no 54829/1922 ) |
| Year Range: | 1939-1948 |
| Enlistment Place: | Melbourne |
| Service Number: | 410234 |
| Father: | Herbert Holland |
| Series Description: | A9300: RAAF, Officers |
Source Citation
National Archives of Australia; Canberra, Australia; RAAF Officers Personnel files, 1921-1948; Series: A9300
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Australia, World War II Military Service Records, 1939-1945 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.
Original data:
Second Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1939-1947. National Archives of Australia.
A full list of sources can be found here.
Description
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Keith Ross Holland
in the UK, World War II Index to Allied Airmen Roll of Honour, 1939-1945
| Name: | Keith Ross Holland |
| Rank: | Fg Off |
| Death Age: | 22 |
| Birth Year: | 24 Sep 1922 |
| Death Date: | 27 Oct 1944 |
| Military Base: | Benson, Oxon |
| Service Number: | 410234 |
| Unit: | 540 Squadron |
| Command: | Coastal Cmnd |
| Ship: | Mosquito Prxvi |
| Occupation: | Pilot |
| Casualty: | Killed in action |
| Medal: | Dfc |
| Residence Place: | Mildura, Victoria, Australia (Curlwaa) |
| Burial Place: | Heverlee War Cemetery, Belgium |
| Notes: | Shot Down During A Photo Recce Sortie to Berlin and Stettin |
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