Private William Henry Davis

Army Number: 16774

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

Born and lived in Nottingham. Son of John Davis, of New Lenton, Nottingham; husband of E. Moore (formerly Davis), of 62, Druid Street, Hinckley, Leicestershire. He enlisted at Nottingham and died of wounds, on 25th September 1915, aged 28, at the 2nd London Casualty Clearing Station, Merville, France.

Buried: Merville Communal Cemetery, France. Plot 4. Row E. Grave 5.

Private William Henry Davis is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Lenton War Memorial, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.