Private David Davis

Army Number: 26291

Battalion: 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Spalding, Lincolnshire and lived at 4 Bank Road, Pleasley. Mansfield and 6 Victoria Street, Warsop, Nottinghamshire. Husband of Martha Davis, of 2, Orchard View, Mansfield-Woodhouse, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. He enlisted at Mansfield and was killed in action, on 8th August 1916, aged 21, whilst serving in the line at Le Hamel, France.

Buried: Gorre British and Indian Cemetery, France. Plot 2. Row B. Grave 21.

Private David Davis is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Barnabus Church War Memorial, Pleasley Hill, Nottinghamshire.
St. Peter and St. Paul Church War Memorial, Warsop, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.