Francis Edward Davis

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Francis Edward AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Davis AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 27470 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Pono

Methodist, Christian AWMM

Whānautanga mai

1 Mar 1896 AWMM
Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM 12 City Road, Roslyn, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Francis Edward Davis, sen. (father), 12 City Road, Roslyn, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 23 Sep 1916 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
• Messines AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 27470 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Clerk AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 23 Sep 1916-19 Nov 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 65 AWMM Vessel was Pakeha AWMM Private AWMM 17th Reinforcements, Otago Infantry Battalion, D Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Private AWMM
Otago Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion AWMM

Son of Francis E. and Susan Mary Davis, of 12, Scarborough Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand. Native of Dunedin, New Zealand.

He was originally buried in the battle field.

Father and son served in WW1. Francis Edward Davis senior (19/311) served in Samoa and son Francis Edward Davis (27470) was killed in Belgium. AWMM

Matenga

7 Jun 1917 AWMM
Age  19 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Wulverghem-Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery, Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM V. B. 20. AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Roll of Honour, Dunedin Railway Station, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM
• Railways Roll of Honour board. Wellington Railway Station, Pipitea, Wellington 6011. AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20995758
  Further Reference
• Other military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7879835
  Further Reference
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Roll of Honour, Dunedin Railway Station
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/dunedin-railway-station-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/450260/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/450260
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• New Zealand at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.
• HMNZT 65 - Pakeha : the journal of the Seventeenth Reinforcements H.M.N.Z. Transport 65 (S.S."Pakeha"). Pilling, E.G. (Ewen George), editor. McGhie, J.G. (John Gordon), editor. Bell, R.B. (Robert Brown), editor. -- At sea : Officers and men, 17th Reinforcements : 1916.
• HMNZT 65 - Pakeha : the journal of the Seventeenth Reinforcements H.M.N.Z. Transport 65 (S.S."Pakeha"). Pilling, E.G. (Ewen George), editor. McGhie, J.G. (John Gordon), editor. Bell, R.B. (Robert Brown), editor. -- At sea : Officers and men, 17th Reinforcements : 1916.
• New Zealand at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  41: 15
• New Zealand at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.
  New Zealand at the front. (1917), page 141.
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 3: Includes portrait
• Byrne, A. E. Official History of the Otago Regiment, NZEF in the Great War, 1914–1918. Dunedin: J. Wilkie, 1921.