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GEORGE DAVIES
BORN HULME, MANCHESTER 17 Oct 1886. ONLY SON OF WALTER ROBERT DAVIES (1859-1914) AND CHARLOTTE DAVIES (1859-1909), OF HULME, MANCHESTER. HE HAD THREE SISTERS, FLORENCE, CHARLOTTE AND LILIAN. HE WAS A WOOD CASE PACKER (1901)
HE ENLISTED IN MANCHESTER. LEFT WIDOW & TWO CHILDREN AT 15, JOHNS TERRACE, DERBY STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS).
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 12TH DECEMBER 1914, AND THE HULL TIMES, ON THE 19TH DECEMBER 1914, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
HE HAD SERVED THREE YEARS WITH THE COLOURS AND EIGHT YEARS IN THE RESERVES, INCLUDING THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR. FORMERLY EMPLOYED AT MR CHRISTIE'S STONE WORKS, SCULCOATES, HULL.
POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 15/08/1914. SERVED IN THE 2ND MANCHESTER REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 29/10/1914, AGED 29. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO MARGARET BENNY AND SISTERS, FLORENCE, CHARLOTTE AND LILIAN.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON LE TOURET MEMORIAL, FRANCE.
Richebourg 62136
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