49278 Pte Ernest Wilberforce Davies, RAMC

49278 Private Ernest Wilberforce Davies of the 39th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps died on this day, 13th August, in 1915. He had previously served with the Welsh Regiment (number 13279) and, according to Soldiers Died in The Great War, he was born in Llanelly and enlisted there as well.

Ernest was the son of Thomas Rhys Davies and Margaret Ann Davies and was 23 years old when he died. He is buried in the 7th Field Ambulance Cemetery in Turkey, grave reference SP.Mem.B.25.

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

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in the Great War