Second Lieutenant Walter Arthur Davis

Army Number: n/a

Battalion: 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of John and Omelia Davis, of 25, Wilton Street, Old Basford, Nottingham. He was educated at High Pavement School, Nottingham. He was a lace draughtsman and emigrated to the United States of America in 1913 but returned to England to enlist at the outbreak of the war. He was commissioned into the Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment on 28th June 1915 into the 13th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He was posted to the 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and went to France on 11th February 1916. He was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 27, during the attack on the German positions near Ovillers, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Blighty Valley Cemetery, Authuille Wood, France. Plot II.  Row 1.  Grave 6

Second Lieutenant Walter Arthur Davis is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
High Pavement Boys Grammar School Roll of Honour, (Nottinghamshire Archives), Nottingham
St. Aidens Church Roll of Honour, Basford, Nottingham.
St. Leodegaruis Church War Memorial, Basford, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.