Richard's Story.
Birkenhead News 25 May 1918
Mrs. R. Holohan of No. 5, St. Anne’s Terrace, Birkenhead, will be extremely grateful to anyone, on active service or otherwise, who can furnish information regarding her husband, Sergeant Drummer Richard Holohan (9923), B Co., 2nd Royal Irish Regt. He has been missing since March 21st last. Sergt. Holohan came from India with his regiment in August 1914, went out to France, and was wounded in March, 1915. Sent back to England, he was until August, 1915, a patient at the Borough Hospital Annexe, Birkenhead. In the November following he returned to France and resumed duty. He obtained leave – his first – in August of last year, when he was married to a Birkenhead lady. Twenty-five years of age, Sergt. Drummer Holohan is a native of Castle Morris, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland. The fact of his being missing since the date named has been intimated to Mrs. Holohan in a letter from the Adjutant of her husband’s Battalion. It will readily be understood that she is undergoing a period of severe anxiety in the absence, up to the present, of any intelligence concerning him.