1879 Sep 27 Born Bethnal Green, London
1881 census Living at Turin St, Bethnel Green
1897 Oct 10 Enlisted in Militia
1897 Jul 25 Deserted
1899 Feb 21 Enlisted in Militia 7th (Royal 2nd Middlesex Militia) KRRC
1899 Apr 7 Enlists in KRRC. Nok is his grandmother Elizabeth Holloway of 31 Ravenscroft St, Hackney Rd, London
1899 Nov 4 Posted to South Africa
Queen’s South Africa Medal, clasps: Cape Colony / Tugela Heights / Relief of Ladysmith / Transvaal / Laing’s Nek, to: 1818 PTE J. HOLLOWAY, K.R.R.C.
King’s South Africa Medal, clasps: South Africa 1901 / South Africa 1902, to:1818 PTE J. HOLLOWAY. K.R.R.C.
1903 Mar 22 Posted back to UK
1904 Mar 16 Posted to Bermuda
1905 Oct 25. Posted back to UK
1907 Apr 6 Transfers to A Reserve
1911 Apr 6 Discharged from Reserve for being "illegally absent". I think he had gone to Canada by then
Served in Canadian Exp Force
1914-1915 Star, to:43678 DVR. J. HOLLOWAY. 1/CAN:DIV:A.C.
British War Medal, and Victory Medal, to:43678 DVR. J. HOLLOWAY. C.F.A.
16th (Guelph) Battery - Canadian Field Artillery (Militia)
Canadian Field Artillery- 1st Divisional Ammunition Column - No 1 Section as No 43678
1919 Jul 27 Married Katherine Jane Tucker at Walthamstow, St Michael And All Angels, Essex
1921 Jan 13 Son born Thomas William Holloway in Shoreditch
1921 Apr 12 Joined Royal Irish Constabulary - Veterans’ Division as Temporary Constable No 80490
1974 His wife died in Eastbourne