Private Thomas Davis

Army Number: 120627

Battalion: 4th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Stanley, Derbyshire. Son of Matthew and Leacher Davis, of Stanley, Brickyard, Derbyshire. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting on 10th December 1915 at Ilkeston, Derbyshire. He died at the City Hospital, Walker Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, on 23rd October 1918, aged 24.

Buried: Stanley (St. Andrew) Churchyard, Derbyshire, United Kingdom. South-East of Church.

Private Thomas Davis is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Stanley War Memorial, Stanley, Derbyshire.
St. Andrew’s Church Porch War Memorial, Stanley, Derbyshire.
St. Andrew’s Church Roll of Honour, Stanley, Derbyshire.

His brother Private Arnold Davis, Leicestershire Regiment, also fell in the Great War.