Wales’ Own Yorkshire Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of Horace Darwin,
F.R.S., Chairman of Cambridge Scientific Instrument Co., by his wife,
the Hon. Emma Cecilla (Ida) née Farrer, only dau. of Thomas Henry, 1st
Lord Farrer, and grandson of Charles Darwin; _b._ Cambridge, 7
Dec. 1881; educ. at Horris Hill and Marlborough (Cotton House), and
gained an exhibition for mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge. He
went up to Trinity in Oct. 1901, and took the Mathematical Tripos in
his second year, being placed among the Senior Optimes. Afterwards he
took the Mechanical Sciences Tripos, and was placed in the second class
in 1905. On leaving Cambridge, he went through the shops at Messrs.
Mather and Platt’s at Manchester. After this he worked for some little
while with the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Co., of which he was a
director, and then became assistant secretary of Bolckow, Vaughan and
Co., Ltd., at Middlesbrough. Here he stayed for seven years, and at
the outbreak of war occupied the position of secretary to the company.
As soon as war broke out he decided to join the army and on 12 Sept.
1914, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the 4th (Territorial) Battn. of the
Yorkshires, which after training at Darlington and Newcastle crossed
to France, as part of the Northumbrian Division, on 17 April, 1915,
and was within a week called upon to take part in the second battle
of Ypres. Here these Territorial troops fresh from home and tried at
the very outset almost as highly as men could be tried, behaved with
a steadiness and coolness which gained for them the congratulations
of the Generals commanding respectively their Division and their Army
Corps. Early in the afternoon of 24 April the Battn. was ordered to
attack the village of Fortuin, close to St. Julien where the Germans
had broken through. This attack they successfully carried out in the
face of terrific shell fire, before being ordered to retire at dusk. By
driving the enemy back a mile or more they had attained their object
which was to prevent a breach in the line; and they had made good their
front with the Canadians and Royal Irish on their right. It was during
this advance that Darwin fell, killed instantaneously. His Commanding
officer, Colonel Bell, wrote of him: “Loyalty, courage, and devotion
to duty--he had them all.... He died in an attack which gained many
compliments to the Battn. He was right in front. It was a man’s death.”
Corpl. Wearmouth, who was in his platoon, wrote: “I am a section leader
in his platoon, and when we got the order to advance he proved himself
a hero. He nursed us men; in fact, the comment was, ‘You would say we
were on a field-day.’ We had got to within twenty yards of our halting
place when he turned to our platoon to say something. As he turned he
fell, and I am sure he never spoke. As soon as I could I went to him
but he was beyond human aid. Our platoon sadly miss him, as he could
not do enough for us, and we are all extremely sorry for you in your
great loss”; and Private Wood wrote to a friend in Middlesbrough: “I
expect you would know poor Mr. Darwin.... I was in his platoon, and
I can tell you he died a hero. He led us absolutely regardless of
the bullets from the German Maxim guns and snipers that whistled all
round him.” Just before he left England, when his Battn. was under
orders for the Front, he was summoned to the War Office and offered a
Staff appointment at home in connection with munitions of war. This
would have given great scope to his capabilities. “It would have been
interesting and important work,” he wrote, “but, of course, there are
plenty of older men who can do it just as well as I can.” He felt that
at that moment his place should be with his regt., and made, in the
words of one present at the interview, a “fine appeal” to be allowed to
go with his men. It was granted, and he went gladly and with no looking
back. The Times (30 April, 1915) said of him: “Erasmus Darwin would, if
he had lived, have added fresh distinction to the name of his family in
a walk of life in which it has never before figured. Between Cambridge
and a great iron works in the North there is something of a gulf fixed
and one who knew Darwin only in his Cambridge home cannot say anything
more than that all those who met him in business conceived a very high
opinion of his grasp of his subject, his acuteness and administrative
ability. It was, indeed, impossible to know him without realising that
he combined with intellectual ability a calm, sound, and practical
judgment, and a general capacity for doing things well and thoroughly.
He had, too, what must have been invaluable to him in his work, a most
genuine sympathy with and affection for working men, and this quality,
which, amongst so many other things, had made him love his work at
Middlesbrough, gave him intense pleasure when soldiering came to him
as a wholly new and unlooked-for experience. He delighted in the men,
and especially in long expeditions across the moors with his scouts.
There is one more quality as to which all his friends would agree,
namely, a conscientiousness that was eminently sane and wide-minded and
completely unswerving. No one in the world was more certain to do what
he believed to be right.”
[Illustration: =Erasmus Darwin.=]
=DASH, FREDERICK JOHN=, Officer’s Cook, 1st Class, 363215
(Ports.), H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine,
about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=DASHWOOD, FRANK LEOPOLD=, L.-Corpl., No. 241, D Coy., 10th Battn.
Australian Imperial Force, first and only surviving _s._ of the
late Leopold Dashwood, of 180, Dereham Road, Norwich, Commercial
Traveller, by his wife, Lottie, dau. of the late William Worts, of
North Walsham; _b._ Norwich, 9 Feb. 1882; educ. Cambridge House
and Higher Grade Schools, Norwich; joined the Royal Garrison Artillery
in 1901 during the South African war, and served eight years with the
Colours and four in the Reserve. He emigrated to Australia in 1911, and
on the outbreak of the war joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force,
12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 26 April,
1915; _unm._ His Capt. wrote: “He was a very fine soldier indeed,
stood out from some others as a particularly smart example. It was not
until we had been some time in Egypt that he would accept promotion,
otherwise he would have been much higher in rank than he was. There is
no question he was popular with the men in his section.”
[Illustration: =Frank Leopold Dashwood.=]
=DAUN, EDWARD CHARLES=, Lieut. and Assistant Adjutant, 2nd Battn.
Royal Sussex Regt., 2nd Infantry Brigade, only _s._ of Charles
James Daun, by his wife, Ada Margaret, dau. of Lieut.-Gen. Edward
Arthur Williams, C.B., Colonel Commandant R.A., and great-grandson of
Col. Henry Williams, R.A., who served at Waterloo; _b._ Streatham,
Surrey, 15 June, 1885; educ. Sunningdale School and Harrow; joined
the 3rd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. 27 Feb. 1904; gazetted 2nd Lieut.
in the 2nd Battn. 29 Nov. 1905, and promoted Lieut. 10 Nov. 1909. On
the outbreak of war he left Woking for the Front, 12 Aug. 1914; was
present in the fighting at, and retreat from, Mons, and was killed
near Troyon at the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914; _unm._ A
comrade wrote: “We were in the same company. I was unfortunately sent
home with an injured leg, but last saw your son on 4 Sept. At that time
he was in splendid health and in such good spirits. He was a splendid
officer, and worked night and day for the good of his regt. and his
company, and had a great future before him. He was to have been our
next Adjutant, and will be a great loss to the regt.” The Colonel,
senior Major and Adjutant all fell the same day. Lieut. Daun was a
fine rifle shot, and won the Officers’ Cup at the Aldershot Command
Meeting in 1912 and 1913, and was second in 1914. Of his uncles,
Lieut.-Col. H. F. Williams, Royal Munster Fusiliers, and Lieut.-Col.
E. G. Williams, C.M.G., commanding 1st Battn. Devonshire Regt., are
at the Front; and Capt. A. L. Williams, Royal Scots (died 24 May,
1906) served with the Bechuanaland Expedition, 1884–85; while of his
great-uncles, Lieut.-Gen. Sir H. F. Williams, K.C.B., 60th Rifles,
served through the Mutiny and Lieut.-Col. the Hon. H. R. Handcock, 97th
Regt., was killed at the storming of the Redan in the Crimean war; and
his great-great-uncle, Admiral Sir William Pierson, K.C.B., was wounded
as a Midshipman in the Belleisle at Trafalgar.
[Illustration: =Edward Charles Daun.=]
=DAVEY, ARTHUR JOHN=, Private, No. 11483, 1st Battn. Coldstream
Guards, _s._ of Richard Soper Davey, of Broadway, Woodbury,
Exeter, by his wife, Emily, dau. of Samuel Litton; _b._ Woodbury,
co. Devon, 23 May, 1897; educ. Woodbury Council School; enlisted
31 Aug. 1914; went to France, 11 Dec., and was killed in action at
Givenchy, 22 Dec. 1914; _unm._
=DAVEY, WILLIAM ALFRED GEORGE=, Rifleman, No. 2080, 1/18th
Battn. (London Irish) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of James
Best Davey, Sergt. 15th Middlesex Regt., by his wife, Sarah Elizabeth
(42, Pretoria Avenue, Walthamstow), dau. of William Thomas Warner;
_b._ Willesden, 18 May, 1894; was a student at the International
Correspondence Schools, Kingsway, and had been employed for many years
on the clerical staff of the Stores Department of the London County
Council. After the outbreak of war he joined the London Irish on 31
Aug. 1914; went to the Front, 9 March, 1915, and was killed in action
at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; _unm._ He was in the first
line of German trenches binding up wounds sustained by a comrade, when
he must have been observed by a German sniper, for, as he was advancing
towards the second line of trenches, he was shot in the head by a
rifle bullet. Lieut. G. M. Slattery wrote: “The Capt. of your son’s
company was struck by a shell, and your son was seen at once to make
for him. On his way he was struck in the head and killed. He was a good
lad and liked by everybody, and the action which led to his death was
characteristic of him. He never seemed to trouble about himself, but
was always the first to help others.” He was buried in a village just
outside Loos.
[Illustration: =William Alfred G. Davey.=]
=DAVID, CHARLIE=, Stoker, 1st Class, 311578, H.M.S. Good Hope;
lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=DAVID, JAMES STANLEY=, L.-Corpl., No. 30737, 1st Battn. Welsh
Regt., _s._ of Walter David, of Uplands, Swansea; served with the
Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, being buried in
a trench on the night of 3 Aug. 1915, aged 23; _unm._
=DAVIDSON, ALEXANDER BISSETT=, Private, No. 16166, 2nd Battn.
(Queen’s Own) Cameron Highlanders, _s._ of James Brown Davidson,
of 15, High Street, Portobello, near Edinburgh, an employee on the
N.B. Ry., by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Alexander Bissett; _b._
Portobello, 12 Jan. 1891; educ. Tower Bank Public School there;
enlisted 7 Dec. 1914; and was killed in action at the Battle of Hill
60, 29 April, 1915; _unm._
[Illustration: =Alexander B. Davidson.=]
=DAVIDSON, ALEXANDER MURRAY STUART=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6689),
185747, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North
Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._
=DAVIDSON, DUNCAN HAMLYN=, Capt., 1st Battn. Seaforth Highlanders,
eldest _s._ of Duncan Davidson, of Inchmarlo, co. Kincardine,
J.P., D.L., by his wife, Flora Frances (died 6 Jan. 1884), eldest dau.
of sir Francis Burdett, of Foremark, 7th Bart.; _b._ Inchmarlo,
28 March, 1877, and was educated at Harrow. He served some time with
the 3rd Gordon Militia, and during the South African War obtained (21
April, 1900) through King Edward a commission as 2nd Lieut, in the
Seaforth Highlanders, although he was over the age, and was promoted
Lieut. 19 April, 1902, and Capt. 25 March, 1911. He afterwards served
with his regt. in Egypt and India, and was Adjutant to the 4th
(Territorial) Battn. of the Seaforths from 1909 to 1913. Capt. Davidson
was stationed at Agra when the European War broke out, and he went
with his regt. to France, arriving there in Oct. 1914. He was severely
wounded at Festubert, 17 Dec. 1914, and was invalided home. He returned
to his own battn. on 28 March, and fell at Neuve Chapelle on 9 May
1915, while commanding the first company in the attack on the German
trenches. His colonel wrote: “He was twice wounded in the advance, but
still went on until he finally fell still leading his company. He was
a good officer and a great favourite, and was much loved by officers
and men. We miss him very much. He was a gallant fellow”; and again:
“It was he who led us in everything, no matter what; and Ritchie told
me it was Hamlyn who reached the German trenches in the fore front as
usual. The 1st Battn. have lost their bravest and most gallant officer,
and his brother officers their dearest pal. Both battns. have suffered
so heavily, and how you have felt for us, I know, and I and others of
the two battns. who knew and loved your son so well, grieve with you in
your great loss. A brother officer tells me that the moment he crossed
the parapet they came under heavy machine gun fire. He was hit, got
up again, hit again; and again up at the head of what remained of his
company. Then he was hit again and fell near the German trenches, and
he could not or would not retire.” His younger brother, Capt. L. E. O.
Davidson, R.F.A., Adjutant of the 55th Brigade, received the D.S.O. for
gallant conduct on 16 Sept. 1914.
[Illustration: =Duncan Hamlyn Davidson.=]
=DAVIDSON, JAMES=, Private, No. 9720, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards; _b._
Bothwell Belshill, co. Lanark; enlisted 4 Sept., 1914; served with the
Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 23 July, 1915.
He _m._ at Blantyre, 14 Dec. 1907, Mary (34, Hale Street, Blantyre),
dau. of (--) Kelly, and had four daus.: Mary, _b._ 4 Dec. 1908; Annie,
_b._ 23 May, 1910; Catherine, _b._ 23 Aug. 1912, and Agnes, _b._ 25
Sept. 1914.
=DAVIDSON, JOHN HENRY=, Coy. Sergt.-Major, No. 125, 9th Battn.
Durham L.I. (T.F.), _s._ of Robert Davidson, of 75, Thomas
Terrace, Blaydon-on-Tyne, Foreman on the N.E.R. Co., by his wife.
Ellen; _b._ Hexham, co. Northumberland, 17 March, 1885; educ.
Blaydon Council School; enlisted in the 5th Vol. (now the 9th
Territorial) Battn. D.C.L.I.; volunteered for Imperial service on the
outbreak of war; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and
Flanders, and greatly distinguished himself on Whit Monday, at the
Second Battle of Ypres, when he carried four men who were gassed to
a place of safety; was for this promoted Coy. Sergt.-Major, and was
killed in action, 22 June, 1915, being shot by a sniper; _unm._
Buried at Kemmel. His commanding officer, Lieut.-Col. Henderson spoke
of him as a splendid soldier.
=DAVIDSON, WILLIAM=, Chief Petty Officer (N.S.), 156472, H.M.S.
Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=DAVIDSON, WILLIAM LESLIE=, C.B., J.P., Col. on the Staff, R.A., 2nd
_s._ of the late Patrick Davidson, of Inchmarlo, co. Kincardine,
LL.D., J.P., D.L., by his wife, Mary Anne, eldest dau. of William
Leslie, 10th Laird of Warthill, co. Aberdeen; _b._ Aberdeen, 31
Jan. 1850; educ. the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (passing in
twenty-seventh and out twenty-seventh), and entered the Army as Lieut.
7 July, 1869; was promoted Capt., 24 Jan. 1880; Major, 7 June, 1885;
Lieut.-Col., 25 June, 1896; and Col., 23 Jan. 1900. He was for some
time A.D.C. to the Commander-in-Chief in India, and subsequently to
the Governor of Gibraltar; served through the Zulu Campaign (wounded
at Ulundi--mentioned in Despatches, medal with clasps), 1879. Had
charge of Cetewayo for some time in Cape Town. Took part in the
Afghan War (medal), 1880. Served in the South African War, 1899–1900;
commanded the R.H.A. on the forced march to the Relief of Kimberley;
was present at Paardeburg, Poplar Grove, Driefontein and Karee Siding,
and afterwards commanded the town defences of Bloemfontein (twice
mentioned in Despatches, Queen’s medal with four clasps and C.B.). He
retired in 1907, and in 1913 was appointed Gentleman Usher to the King.
On the outbreak of the European War, in Aug. 1914, although 63 years
of age, he immediately volunteered for active service and was sent
to command No. 4 General Base Depôt at Rouen. There he fell a victim
to over-exertion and died on active service, 3 Aug. 1915, from heart
failure. He was buried with full military honours in the portion of
the cemetery at Rouen reserved for British officers. A brother officer
wrote: “He died when in the fulfilment of a duty to his country,
towards which he devoted a life-time full of energy and heartiness. I
felt sure that with his keen and vigorous sense of duty he would spare
no pains to try and take his share of work in the Nation’s task.”
Another: “A soldier to the backbone, he leaves a very fine record.” One
from Rouen: “He was such a favourite amongst us all that we all feel
the loss of a dear friend.” A naval officer: “He has given everything
and laid down his life for the country like many another gallant
gentleman.” A relation from France: “I can’t be thankful enough for
those two afternoons that I saw him over this side, nor will I ever
forget him, as I looked back, standing there in the sun, his hand
raised in farewell, laughing with pure joy of life and the summer
day. He was so smart and upright, with his rows of decorations, as he
stood beside his pony, a British officer on active service. And he was
so kind to everyone, all there seemed to be his friends and to want
a word from him as they passed.” He _m._ at the Oratory, Brompton, 1
Feb. 1887, Lady Theodora, née Keppel, eldest surviving dau. of William
Coutts, 7th Earl of Albemarle, and had two sons and four daus.: Donald
Alastair Leslie, Lieut. Royal Flying Corps, formerly a Page of Honour
to His Majesty King Edward VII, now (1916) on active service with the
British Expeditionary Force, returned home severely wounded, _b._ 6
Oct. 1891; Colin Keppel, Lieut. R A., now (1916) on active service,
_b._ 1 Sept. 1895; Doris, _b._ May, 1888 and _d._ 14 Oct. 1888; Hilary,
_b._ 13 April, 1889; Vera Marian, _b._ 6 Aug. 1893, _m._ 17 Dec. 1914,
Aylmer Probyn Maude, Lieut. Rifle Brigade; and Lena Theodora, _b._ 14
Sept. 1894. His nephew, Capt. D. H. Davidson, younger, of Inchmarlo,
was also killed in action (see his notice).
[Illustration: =W. L. Davidson, C.B.=]
=DAVIES, ALBERT=, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 16080, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=DAVIES, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 9579, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards,
eldest _s._ of Thomas Davies, of Poole Hills, Nantwich, Cheshire,
by his wife, Annie, dau. of Henry Halfpenny; _b._ Burslem, co.
Stafford, 22 Feb. 1894; educ. Acton School, near Nantwich; enlisted 24
April, 1912; went to the Front with the Expeditionary Force, 13 Aug.
1914; was wounded in Sept. but rejoined; took part, with his company,
in the assault on the German trenches on 4 Oct., for which Corpl.
Russell was elected by vote to receive the D.C.M., and was mortally
wounded at the First Battle of Ypres, and died in No. 13 Clearing
Hospital at Vlamertinghe, Belgium, 7 Nov. 1914; _unm._
[Illustration: =Arthur Davies.=]
=DAVIES, CHARLES=, Sick Berth Steward, 350753, H.M.S. Cressy; lost
in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=DAVIES, FREDERICK ERNEST=, Corpl., R.M.L.I. 15356 (R.F.R., B.
1855), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=DAVIES, GEORGE=, Stoker 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9247), S.S.
106467, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=DAVIES, GEORGE ROLAND=, Gunner, No. 80826, R.F.A., _s._
of (--) Davies, of Moss Bank, 27, Richmond Road, Ashton-under-Lyne;
_b._ 1893; was a clerk; volunteered and enlisted 8 March, 1915;
was drafted to Newcastle-on-Tyne, and died in the Armstrong College
Military Hospital there, 27 April following, from pneumonia, contracted
while training; _unm._
=DAVIES, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Private, No. 8150, 2nd Battn. King’s Own
Yorkshire L.I., _s._ of the late John Davies, by his wife, Mary,
dau. of John Bright; _b._ Hansley, near Nottingham, 11 March,
1885; educ. Nottingham; enlisted 3 March, 1901, served three years with
the Colours and eight with the Reserves, and was with the Militia in
South Africa (medal). He was afterwards employed at Orgreaves Colliery,
Truton, near Rotherham, but was called up on mobilisation, 5 Aug. 1914.
Went to the Front, 18 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at La Bassée,
27 Oct. 1914. He _m._ at St. Mary’s Church, Sculcoates, Hull, 7
Oct. 1911, Lily (83, Stepney Lane, Beverley Road, Hull), dau. of John
Brown, and had two children: George, _b._ 1 March, 1914; and Mary,
_b._ 22 May, 1912.
[Illustration: =George William Davies.=]
=DAVIES, HAROLD=, Private, No. 10744, 2nd Battn. Coldstream
Guards, _s._ of William Davies, of Sandy Lane, Middlestown,
Wakefield; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.;
reported missing between 29 Oct. and 2 Nov. 1914.
=DAVIES, ISAAC=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7028), S.S. 101591,
H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15
Oct. 1914; _m._
=DAVIES, JAMES=, Private, No. 15761, A Coy., 9th Battn, the
Welsh Regt., _s._ of Isaac Davies, of Old Royal Oak Saw mills,
Pumpsaint, co. Carmarthen, Builder; by his wife Letitia, dau. of David
Lewis of Llanybyther; _b._ Pumpsaint, afsd., 10 Dec. 1896; educ.
Llandovery Intermediate School; was a joiner; enlisted after the
outbreak of War, 25 Sept. 1914; went to France, 19 July, 1915, and died
in the hospital at Etaples, 29 Sept. 1915, of wounds received in action
near Loos, four days previously. He was buried in the English Military
Cemetery, Etaples (Grave D. 30); _unm._
=DAVIES, JOHN ROBERT=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5466), 178192, H.M.S.
Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=DAVIES, RICHARD=, L.-Corpl. No. 8557, 1st Battn. Dorsetshire
Regt., eldest _s._ of John Aubrey Davies, Colliery Manager, by his
wife, Rachel, dau. of William Thomas, of the Brecon Arms, Penderyn;
_b._ Abercanaid, Merthyr Tydfil, 2 Aug. 1878; educ. in United
States and Penderyn, co. Breconshire; enlisted in the Somerset L.I. 24
April, 1899, and served through the South African War, 1900–2, took
part in the relief of Ladysmith and in the operations in the Orange
Free State and the Transvaal, receiving the Queen’s medal with three
bars and the King’s medal with two bars. Afterwards he worked as a
collier at the Tower Colliery of the Marquis of Bute, but was called
up on mobilisation, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France the third week in Dec.
1914; was wounded by a shell in the left shoulder and side, 8 April,
and died in the 4th General Hospital, Versailles, 17 April, 1915, being
buried in the cemetery there. He _m._ at Aberpergwm Church, Glyn
Neath, Glamorgan, 31 May, 1906, Catherine (51, Station Road, Hirwain),
dau. of Rees Thomas, and left a son and dau.: Austin, _b._ 7 Oct.
1912; and Gwyneth, _b._ 1 Nov. 1910.
[Illustration: =Richard Davies.=]
=DAVIS, ALBERT HENRY=, Leading Stoker, 305137, H.M.S. Good Hope;
lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=DAVIS, ARTHUR ALBION=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 306743, H.M.S.
Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=DAVIS, CHARLES WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3865),
292225, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of
Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=DAVIS, EDWARD SAMUEL=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5119), 194384, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=DAVIS, ERNEST GEORGE FRANK=, Bugler, R.M.L.I., Ch. 17054, H.M.S.
Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=DAVIS, GEORGE DAVID=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8815),
S.S. 105493, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept.
1914.
=DAVIS, HENRY WILLIAM WARREN=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Welch Regt.,
eldest _s._ of Henry Warren Davis, of Tre Warren, Milford Haven,
J.P., Major of Mining Engineers (Militia) from 1888 to 1902, by his
wife, Christobel, dau. of Christopher Robson; _b._ Milford Haven,
co. Pembroke, 27 Dec. 1891; educ. Malvern College and Sandhurst;
gazetted 2nd Lieut. Welch Regt. 14 Feb. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 1
Nov. 1914. On the outbreak of war he went with the 1st Battn. of his
regt. to the Front, served in France and Flanders, and was killed in
action at Zonnebeke, near Ypres, 18 April, 1915, being hit by a bomb on
the head and killed instantaneously while assisting a wounded comrade.
He was buried in the military cemetery there; _unm._ Lieut. Davis
was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May
[London Gazette, 22 June], 1915. He was a first-class swimmer, and won
prizes at Malvern; was also a good boxer, and won the amateur heavy
weight at Cairo in 1912. His captain wrote of him that “A more lovable
and splendid fellow it would be impossible to find.”
[Illustration: =Henry William W. Davis.=]
=DAVIS, REGINALD WILLIAM=, E.R.A., R.N.R. 1011EA, H.M.S. Aboukir;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=DAVIS, SIDNEY JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7182),
S.S. 1186, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept.
1914.
=DAVISON, CHARLES FREDERICK=, Leading Seaman, 209911, H.M.S.
Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=DAVISON, CHARLES GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5469), 201505, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=DAVISON, CHARLES HENRY GEORGE= (_alias_ =CHARLES HENRY
PETTMAN=), P.O., 226607, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was
sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=DAVISON, HARRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 5032), S.S.
104650, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of
Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=DAVY, GEORGE HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111068, H.M.S.
Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=DAWDRY, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7924), S.S.
103616, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=DAWES, ALBERT=, Gunner, R.M.A., 13515, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in
action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=DAWKINS, ALFRED=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 4885), 197385,
H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1
Nov. 1914.