In Kiel War Cemetery, Schleswig Holstein, is the Commonwealth War Grave of 133662 Flight Lieutenant Maurice Holme serving with 14 Squadron Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died 02/12/1945.
A personal inscription commissioned by his family and added to his military headstone reads, IN GOD’S KEEPING
Christine Davison has submitted the following:-
Maurice was the son of Thomas and Alice Kate Holme, of West Boldon, County Durham and the youngest brother of Charles Arthur Holme.
He was born on 15th June 1921 at East Boldon. He is recorded on the 1921 census as under one month, but as the census was taken on the 19th June, he would only be 4 days old.
He was a regular attender of East Boldon Methodist Church Sunday School and won prizes nearly every year in scripture exams. Maurice was also a member of the Boys Brigade.
In 1932, he won a scholarship to attend Washington Secondary School. On leaving school, he worked as a Railway Clerk based at East Boldon.
Maurice received a certificate for first aid for the Station after attending an Ambulance Class organised by L.N.E.R.
Maurice was killed on the 6th December 1945, He was a Flight Lieutenant Navigator/Wireless Operator in the 14th Squadron British Air Forces of Occupation and was stationed at Sylt, Germany, flying Mosquitos. The report about his death says that “he flew into the sea during low-level bombing practice at an armament practice camp”.
He is buried in the Britische Kriesfriedhof Cemetery, Kiel, Germany.
Maurice Holme is remembered at East Boldon on E46.01 and E46.03 and in a R.A.F. Book of Remembrance page 58.
