Lou Holmes (footballer)

Louis Gordon Holmes (7 July 1892 – 23 June 1915) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League. He was killed in Gallipoli in World War I.

Family
The son of Louis Saengar Holmes (1859–1926),  and Lucy Mary Holmes (-1935), née Newton,  Louis Gordon Holmes was born in Launceston, Tasmania on 7 July 1892.

Football
Following his VFL career, Holmes moved to South Australia and studied at the University of Adelaide, where he received a double blue for Rowing and Australian rules football.

Death
He died on 23 June 1915, on the hospital ship H.M.H.S. Gascon, of the abdominal shrapnel wounds that he had sustained in action on 16 June 1915.

He was buried at sea on 24 June 1915, three miles from Gaba Tepe.

Commemorated
He is commemorated at the Lone Pine Cemetery near Gallipoli, Turkey.