Private Samuel Davis

Army Number: 202536

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Church Gresley, Derbyshire. Son of John and Fanny Davis, Lincoln Street, Tibshelf, Derbyshire. Husband of Emily Davis, of 24 Kensington Street, Derby. He was a painter prior to enlisting on 22nd November 1915 at Derby into the 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He went to France on 26th February 1917 and suffered gunshot wounds to his buttocks on 4th May 1917. He was treated at No. 34 Casualty Clearing, la Chapellette,, (Peronne) at No. 5 General Hospital, Rouen, before being transferred to England, on Hospital Ship Western Australia, on 17th May 1917. He returned o France on 4th January 1918 and was posted to the 1st Battalion on 9th January 1918, He was killed in action, on 22nd April 1918,.whilst he was serving in the line at Villers, Brettoneaux, France.

Commemorated : Pozieres Memorial, France. Panel 52 to 54.

Private Samuel Davis is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Werburgh’s Church War Memorial, Derby.