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Honourary Captain William Henry Davis

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Military Cross (MC)

Military service

Age: 35
Rank: Honourary Captain
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Army Chaplains Department
Division: Attached to the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (1st Central Ontario Regt).
Birth: January 21, 1883
Enlistment: March 6, 1916 Alberta
Death: August 9, 1918

Burial/memorial information

LE QUESNEL COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Grave reference: I.
Additional information
Son of James and Anne Davis, of Davistown, King's Co., Ireland. The Chaplain Service was part of the permanent force. It provided chaplains for Canadian units and formations both overseas and in Canada. Information courtesy of Merrickville Memorial Project, May 2002.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 395 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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LE QUESNEL COMMUNAL CEMETERY Somme, France

Le Quesnel is a village about 26 kilometres south-east of Amiens and 8 kilometres south-west of Rosieres and a little north of the main road from Amiens to Noyon. LE QUESNEL COMMUNAL CEMETERY is situated on the northern side of the village on the road to Caix.

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