Thursday 9 September 2010

204004 Pte Walter Davy, 2/5th Bn, Lancashire Fusiliers

Over 1500 British Army officers and men died on this day in 1916. Soldiers Died reports that 204004 Private Walter Davy of the 2/5th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, was killed in action on this day. Walter was born in Nelson, Lancashire and enlisted there with the East Lancashire Regiment (number 4545). He is buried in Delville Wood Cemetery in Longueval, France.

The fact that Soldiers Died and CWGC give his six digit number (which wasn't introduced until some months after Walter had been killed) suggests that he was originally posted missing, his body presumably recovered and buried some time afterwards.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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