Name
Charles Davis
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/07/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
48231
Royal Fusiliers *1
12th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES RESERVOIR CEMETERY
X.F.17.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Great Offley Village Memorial
Pre War
Charles was born 11th January 1898 and baptised 15th May in Offley.
In the 1901 census, Charles was 3 and living at Flint Cottages, Offley with father George (36) & Sarah Ann (30) DAVIS also Annie (10) and Nellie (5). By the 1901 census his mother had died age 30. His father remarried in 1904. To Margaret Chamberlain. In the 1911 census Charles was then 13 living in Offley with his father (43), a poultry dealer, with Margaret (41), also sister Violet (7). All were born in Offley.
Enlisted at Luton.
Wartime Service
Killed in action 31st July 1917 at part of the Royal Fusiliers, 12th Battalion, 1 ih Brigade 24th Division, II Cor s 5th Army.
The Battalion was in the vicinity of Shrewsbury Wood north of Hollebeke which is south west of Ypres in Belgium. Their attack was partly successful but strong German opposition from snipers and from a strongpoint at Tower Hamlets made them withdraw to 500 yds east of the Bassevillebeck.
The Battalion lost 9 officers and 170 other ranks that day and Charles is buried at Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, Belgium.
Additional Information
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (The Rangers).
Acknowledgments
Adrian Pitts
