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Military service
Age:
24
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
10th Bn.
Birth:
Swansea
Death:
May 11, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. L. 5.
Additional information
Son of Marian Ellis Browne (formerly Davies), of Braemar Lodge, Calgary, Alberta, and William Davies.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant William Evan Davies
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Newspaper Clipping
Lt. William Evan Davies enlisted with the First Canadian Contingent at Camp Valcartier, Quebec, on September 24th, 1914. In honoured memory. -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Dack to Dabate. Microform Sequence 26; Volume Number 31829_B016735. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 170. Page 875 of 1140. He was initially buried in L’Abbaye German Military Cemetery, located 5 ½ miles North West of St. Quentin near Villecholles. He body was subsequently exhumed and re-interred in ROISEL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION.
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Lieutenant William Evan Davies
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Evan Davies
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 225 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ROISEL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Somme, France
Roisel is a small town 11 kilometres east of Peronne. The ROISEL COMMUNAL CEMETERY is on the east side of the road to Villers-Faucon and the EXTENSION is immediately to the north of the Communal Cemetery.
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