Sydney Grey Davis

Forenames

Sydney Grey AWMM

Surname

Davis AWMM

Service number

WWI 13430 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

• 29 Aug 1895 AWMM
• 29 Aug 1895 Public Source

Date of birth

29 August 1895

Public - Peter - Researcher - 16 October 2017 - Military records

Place of birth

Greymouth

Public - Peter - Researcher - 16 October 2017 - Military records

Next of kin

• Francis G. Davis (father), Tahuna Post-office, Nelson, New Zealand AWMM
• Francis George DAVIS (father, 1865-1934)
  Catherine Eliza DAVIS (née GRIFFITHS, 1867-1949) mother
  Public - Hamilton - Researcher - 29 March 2015 - Marriage and birth certs.

Relationship status

• Pre 27 May 1916 AWMM Single AWMM
• Brother = George Henry DAVIS (1897-1973),
  38265 Corporal, NZ Machine Gun Battalion, WW1.
  Public - Hamilton - Researcher - 29 March 2015 - Military personnel files, family relatives.
  See also Sydney's biography now on The Prow (Nelson Public Library website).

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 13430 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Banker/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 27 May 1916-27 Jul 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 55 AWMM Vessel was Tofua AWMM Private AWMM 13th Reinforcements, J Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Corporal/Military AWMM
Wellington Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion AWMM

Death

27 Jul 1917 AWMM
Age  21 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Halluin Communal Cemetery AWMM B. 10. AWMM

Memorial name

• Memorial plaque, Bank of New Zealand (Officers of the BNZ who laid down their lives in the Great War AD 1914-1919), BNZ Arcade, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
• Memorial gates, Stoke, Community Hall, Main Road, Stoke, Nelson, New Zealand AWMM
• Nelson Cenotaph Anzac Park, Tahunanui War Memorial
  Public - Peter - Researcher - 16 October 2017 - on site

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20996082
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Casualty form.
  http://web.archive.org/web/20180129035740/http://www.archives.govt.nz/exhibitions/passchendaele/view?pid=archives:12489
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/279122/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/279122
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/983
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• Macdonald, L. (1978). Passchendaele : the story of the third Battle of Ypres 1917. London : Penguin Books.
• Harper, G. (2000). Massacre at Passchendaele : the New Zealand story. Auckland, N.Z.: HarperCollins.
• Bank of New Zealand officers who enlisted for military service in the First World War. Research completed by Paul Hickford (2014-2017).
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  33: 16
• 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
• Auckland War Memorial Museum Library catalogue. War series transcripts. (1990's).
• HMNZT 55 - The Crusader : official organ of Thirteenth Reinforcements aboard H.M.N.Z.T. No.55 -- London : Printed by Spottiswoode Ballantyne and Co. Ltd.