🌺 “The Lancashire Boy Who Went to War and Never Came Home” — The Story of Private William Holland 🌺 William Holland was born in 1886 in South Manchester, Lancashire — a child of the red-brick terraces, the tramlines, and the factory smoke of the city. He was the son of William Holland and Emma Jane Whitehouse. In November 1909, when William was just twenty-three, his father died at the family home in Rusholme. Then came 1914. War erupted across Europe. It reached every street, every factory ga