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Gunner 39636
Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 12-August-1916 aged 22
Son of Obed and Sarah Daniels, of Godstone.
Husband of Alice Amelia Skelton (formerly Daniels), of 44, Diceland Rd., Banstead.
Grave location: New ground.
ALL SAINTS CHURCHYARD BANSTEAD Surrey, England.
Source : Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Last name inscribed on the Wood panel in ALL Saints Banstead ie appears out of order.
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Private 2768
London Regiment 15th Bn.(Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 2-September-1915 aged 21
Son of Frederick and Eleanor Davis, of "Dehra Doon," Lyme Regis Rd., Banstead, Surrey.
Fred Davis attended Sutton Grammer School from 1905 to 1911.
Soon after the outbreak of war he joined the 15th Co of London Civil Service Rifles. In March 1915 he went to France and became batman to an officer. On the morning of September 2nd he was killed by a German shell and lies buried in the little churchyard of Bully Grenay, just behind the firing line at the time. During the greater part of the war it was a front-line cemetery used by fighting units and field ambulances, and protected from German observation by a slight rise in the ground.
Fred Davis is one of the eighty-one men listed on the Old Suttonians' War Memorial which still hangs proudly at the School.
Grave Reference: III. D. 13.
Cemetery: MAROC BRITISH CEMETERY, GRENAY
Source : Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
The Suttonian magazine from Sutton Grammer School's archives. Issue no. 33-34 dated November 1915.
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Last update 5 July 2007 (Details from THE SUTTONIAN magazine)
Wood panel
All Saints Church
Banstead.
Sutton Grammer School
WWI Roll of Honour
MAROC BRITISH CEMETERY, GRENAY