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Personal data

• Name DAVIS
• Initials H
• First name HOWARD
• Place of birth Handsworth
• Country Staffordshire, England
• Last residence Birmingham
• Family Son of Edwin and Susan M. Davis, of Birmingham. Great Charles Street; he had two brothers (Reginald and
  Sydney) and two sisters ( Annie and Margaret).
  
• Education Aston Gammar School

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Lambeth, Surrey, 3 September 1914
• Service number S/978
• Rank Serjeant
• Regiment and unit 8th Bn. Rifle Brigade
• Division - Brigade 41st Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 14th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career to France on 20 May 1915; promoted to the
  rank of sergeant on 25 January 1915;

Death

• Type of wounds Died of wounds
  Wounded in the arm and chest at Hooge, Flanders, 30 July, 1915, and died the following day.
• Date of death 31 July 1915
• Died at the age of 27
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery III - A - 5A

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