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Military service
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
King's Royal Rifle Corps
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
May 29, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Z. 220.
Digital gallery of Second Lieutenant Melville Allen Duff Davis
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Roll of Service
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Newspaper Clipping
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Roll of Honour
"This Roll of Honour has been prepared as a permanent tribute to those men of the teaching profession in Ontario, who enlisted in connection with the Great War." Source: The Roll of Honour of the Ontario Teachers Who Served in the Great War 1914-1918 (The Ryerson Press: Toronto, 1922). The 1914-1918 Roll of Service for Ontario Teachers contains 851 names. 101 died as a result of their military service. The information on this Honour Roll may differ from other sources as it was compiled by the Department of Education in Toronto, Ontario, from "...varied and numerous sources, that mistakes are inevitable." -
Photo of Melville Davis
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement Fourth Edition 1918 published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Acta Victoriana War Supplement
Source: Acta Victoriana War Supplement, Victoria College, Toronto, Ontario, December 1919. -
Photo of Meliville Davis
Source: Acta Victoriana War Supplement, Victoria College, Toronto, Ontario, December 1919. -
Memorial
Owen Sound Collegiate Institute Memorial Tablet. Image courtesy of Owen Sound Collegiate (OSCVI) Digital Soldier Library. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun February 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun June 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
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Memorial
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Melville Allen Duff Davis
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Melville Allen Duff Davis
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Melville Allen Duff Davis
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Melville Allen Duff Davis
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Melville Allen Duff Davis
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Melville Allen Duff Davis
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Melville Allen Duff Davis
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Melville Allen Duff Davis
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Melville Allen Duff Davis
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 586 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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