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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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Pte Davis' actual medals by kind permission of Michael Huggett |
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.
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The church at Grenay by kind permission of Paul Reed |
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Wood panel All Saints Church Banstead. |
On the morning of September 2nd he was killed by a German shell and was buried in the little churchyard of Bully Grenay.
The cemetery at Maroc was just behind the firing line at the time and 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. Pte Davis in Plot III, was one of the graves brought in after the Armistice, from the battlefields and small cemeteries north and east of Grenay.
Fred Davis is one of the eighty-one men listed on the Old Suttonians' War Memorial which still hangs proudly at the School.
 Sutton Grammer School WWI Roll of Honour. | |
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Frederick George Davis was the second son in the family to die during WWl as his step brother Charles Edward Couchman died two years later, in September 1917. Thus both brothers are listed on the Banstead War Memorial.
Added photograph of Pte Davis'actual medals,headstone and Grenay church.
Grave Reference: III. D. 13.
Cemetery: MAROC BRITISH CEMETERY, GRENAY
Sources : Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
The Suttonian magazine from Sutton Grammer School's archives. Issue no. 33-34 dated November 1915.
Photographs of Pte Davis' actual medals, and headstone, kindly supplied by Michael Huggett.
Photograph of Grenay church from
Paul Reed's website
Last update - 11 Oct 2008
MAROC BRITISH CEMETERY, GRENAY
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