Fred Davis (Davies)
Memorial: Wapley - St Peter's Church
Regiment: The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Medals: British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Private
Parents: John and Alice (nee Crew) Davis
Marital status: Single
Home address: Home Address: 3a Penybryn Terrace, Penrhiwceiber, Mountain Ash, Glamorgan Lived: 1901 Census – family lived Pontygwaith, Near Pontypridd, Wales
Pre-war occupation: Scholar on 1911 Census.
Date of birth: 1899
Date of death: 16/04/1918
Buried/Commemorated at: Haringhe (Bandaghem) Military Cemetery, Belgium
Age: 19
Further information:
Fred’s birth registration was in the name of Fred Davis but he was baptised as Frederick Davis. However, when the family moved to South Wales sometime before 1901, an ‘e’ was added to the surname (Generally, Davies is a Welsh surname and Davis an English surname). Most of the records after the move to Wales record the surname as Davies.
Fred’s father was a coal miner and on the 1911 Census the family were living in Bedwas Road, Caerphilly.
Fred Davis is remembered on the St Peter's Church Memorial, Wapley and also on the Chipping Sodbury and District War Memorial Cottage Hospital board, now at Yate and District Heritage Centre, under Wapley and Codrington.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
Yate and District Heritage Centre
Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Findmypast (Soldiers Died during the Great War, 1901 & 1911 Census etc), Researcher John Davis