Name
Robert Davis
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/09/1916
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
19942
Bedfordshire Regiment
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 2C.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Benskin's Brewery Memorial, Watford
Pre War
Son of John and Charlotte Matilda (nee ATKINS) DAVIS.
His parents married 1884 in the Potterspury, Northants, district. Charlotte died 1924 in the Northampton district aged 62; John died 1928 in the Wellingborough, Northants, district aged 67.
Robert was born 6 March 1889 in Northampton, and baptised 7 April 1889 at St Peter’s, Northampton. He resided in Woburn Sands, Beds.
On the 1891 Census, aged 2 he lived in Duston, Northants, with his parents and three siblings. On the 1901 Census, aged 12 he still lived in Duston, the nephew of James and Ada M DAVIS. On the 1911 Census, digging clay aged 22, he lived in Woburn Sands, with his father and one sibling.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bedford; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 30 August 1915, and was killed in action during an unsuccessful attack on The Quadrilateral near Morval.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Robert’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Robert is possibly the R DAVIS commemorated by Benskin's Brewery.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
