DAVIES H.
Harry Davies
Private 37071
"B" Coy. 2nd Bn., Lancashire Fusiliers
Harry Davies died on Thursday 12th October 1916, Age 21, and was buried in the GUARDS' CEMETERY, LESBOEUFS, Somme, France.
He was born c1895 at Sutton-in-Ashfield, to parents John and Jane Davies. John Davies was a Colliery Contractor, and a native of Underwood, Notts, who married Jane Turner at St Mary's Church, Sutton, in February 1894. At the time of the 1901 census the family was living at 2 Union Street, but by 1916 they resided at 21 Langford Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottingham.
Notts Free Press, 11th October 1918
From
‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 –
Lancashire Fusiliers’
DAVIES
Harry. Born
Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts, enlisted Sutton-in-Ashfield. 2nd Bn.,
Lancashire Fusiliers, Private 37071,
Killed in Action, France & Flanders, 12th October 1916.
Research by Heather Faulkes