Born in Waterloo, New South Wales, Australia
Ancestors 
Daughter of William Holmes CMG DSO VD
and Susan Ellen (Green) Holmes
Sister of
Henry R Holmes and Basil Holmes DSO
Wife of
Reginald John Albert Travers
— married
1914 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Descendants 
Mother of
William Holmes Travers and Basil Holmes Travers AM OBE
Died
at about age 71
in Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia
Profile last modified
| Created 6 Jun 2018
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Biography
Dorothy Mabel Holmes was born in 1891 at Waterloo, New South Wales, Australia. She was the only daughter of William Holmes and Susan Green.[1] She would lose her mother to disease in 1912 and father, killed in action in France, in 1917. Her only surviving sibling, Basil, would serve in the Indian Army.
She married Reginald Travers in 1914 in Sydney, New South Wales.[2]
She passed away, aged 71 years, in 1962 at Chatswood, New South Wales.[3] She was survived by her husband and sons.
Sources
- ↑ New South Wales Birth Index #36506/1891
- ↑ New South Wales Marriage Index #9527/1914
- ↑ New South Wales Death Index #32569/1962
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