Service Details
Name:
 DAVIS
Given Name:
 HOWARD LEOPOLD
Initials:
 H L
Service No:
 16199
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 Highland Light Infantry
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Unit:
 17th Bn.
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Unit 2:
 "C" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1916-08-12
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Date of Birth:
 1895-02-10
Age:
 21
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, received at the Battle of the Somme on 1st July, 1916
Additional
Information:
Son of Thomas Benjamin Frederick and Minnie Gertrude Glenham Davis, of Port View, Cowey Rd., Durban, Natal. A cadet on H.M.S. "Worcester"; was two years on the "Clan Graham," leaving to join the H.L.I. at the outbreak of war. Commemoration stone in Durban (Stellawood) Cemetery
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
 ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 IX. D. 16A.

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