Thom's Irish Who's Who/Holland, Captain John Vincent

HOLLAND, Captain John Vincent, V.C. 1916: late Capt. 7th Batt. Leinster Regt. Educ.: Clongowes Wood College; Liverpool University. Travelled extensively in South America, where engaged in ranching, railway engineering, and hunting; returned to England on outbreak of war: enlised in 2nd Life Guards, 2nd Sept., 1914; transferred to Leinster Regt. Feb., 1915; attached to 2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers in France (wounded in 2nd battle of Ypres); attached to 7th Leinster Regt. as Batt. Bombing Officer; saw service at Loos, Hulluch, and Somme, 1916 (despatches and awarded Parchment of 16th Irish Division; V.C. for conspicuous bravery in leading an attack at the capture of Guillemont, 3rd Sept., 1916). Recns.: hunted a great deal with Kildare, Queen's County, and Co. Carlow fox hounds; big game abroad; tennis, cricket; eldest son of John Holland, M.R.C.V.S., of the Model Farm. Athy, Co. Kildare; b. 1889; m. Frances, dau. of Joseph Grogan, J.P., of Manor House, Queenstown. Res.: Model Farm, Athy, Co. Kildare.