Noel Galway
Holmes
Male
England
1891-12-25
County Galway, Ireland
1982-12-24
Hove, East Sussex, England
Educated at Bedford School, he joined the Royal Irish Regiment in 1912 and served in India between 1912 and 1914. During the First World War he served in France. He served in Upper Silesia between 1921 and 1922. In 1922 he joined the East Yorkshire Regiment and served in India between 1933 and 1937. During the Second World War he was Director of Movements at the War Office, between 1939 and 1943.
He attended the conferences of allied war leaders in Casablanca, Washington, D.C., Quebec City, Cairo, Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam. He was Deputy Quartermaster General at the War Office between 1943 and 1946 and, briefly, General Officer Commanding Aldershot Command from September 1946 to November 1946.
Major General Sir Noel Holmes was invested as a Companion of the Order of the British Empire in 1940, as a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1943, and as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1946. He retired from the British Army in 1946.
1910 - 1932
0
16
7
Round 1
Norman Taylor 1 *
Noel Galway Holmes
w.o.
Round 1
Noel Galway Holmes 1 *
J. Rich
6-1
6-2
Round 2
Noel Galway Holmes 1 *
D. Stimson
8-6
6-3
Round 3
Noel Galway Holmes 1 *
G.P. King
6-4
6-4
Quarterfinals
Noel Galway Holmes 1 *
Guy I. Pettigrew
4-6
7-5
6-4
Semifinals
Richard P.Josiah (Dickie) Ritchie 1 *
Noel Galway Holmes
6-2
6-2
Final
Edward Alfred Dearman 1 *
Noel Galway Holmes
6-1
6-3
Round 1
Stanley Harris 1 *
Noel Galway Holmes
6-2
4-6
6-1
6-4
Round 1
Noel Galway Holmes 1 *
Mr. Jouvenel
6-0
6-1
Round 2
Maximilian S. (Max) Ellmer 1 *
Noel Galway Holmes
6-2
6-0
Final
Frank Wilde 1 *
Noel Galway Holmes
6-3
6-1
Round 1
J.L. (Jack) Chamberlain 1 *
Noel Galway Holmes
6-2
4-6
6-2
6-1
Round 1
Noel Galway Holmes 1 *
Patrick Spence
w.o.
Round 2
A.E. Browne 1 *
Noel Galway Holmes
6-4
10-8
3-6
4-6
6-2
Round 2
Noel Galway Holmes 1 *
Frederick A. L'Estrange Burgess
6-3
6-1
Round 3
Claude Saville Grace 1 *
Noel Galway Holmes
6-4
3-0
ret.