Private Jonathan Smithurst Davey

Army Number: 17564

Battalion: 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Jacksdale, Nottinghamshire. Son of John and Anne Davey, of, Jacksdale. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He went to France on 26th January 1915 and was killed in action, 19th June 1918, aged 22, during a raid on the German lines at the “Chalk Pits”, near Mazingarbe, France.

Commemorated: Loos Memorial, France. Panel 87 to 89.

Private Jonathan Smithurst Davey is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Michael and All Angels Church War Memorial, Underwood, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.