Second Lieutenant Wallace Howard Davis

Army Number: n/a formerly Lance Sergeant 2956 23rd County of London Battalion, London Regiment.

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born 31st August 1886 at Portsmouth. Son of Edward James and Sarah Davis (Nee Wetham). Educated At Winchester Training College, 1905-7. Assistant Master at All Saints Boys School, Wandsworth, and High St. Marylebone Boys School. He was gazetted Second Lieutenant 4th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, on 18th April 1915 and joined the 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, on 6th June 1916 at Canal Bank, near Ypres. He was wounded on 28th September 1916 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1917, aged 30. in the attack on Cite St. Theodore, Near Lens, France.

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

Second Lieutenant Wallace Howard Davis is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Marylebone Church War Memorial, London.
Winchester College Cloisters, War Memorial, Winchester, Hampshire.