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Melville Allen Duff Davis

In memory of:

Second Lieutenant Melville Allen Duff Davis

May 29, 1918

Military Service


Force:

Army

Unit:

King's Royal Rifle Corps

Additional Information


Commemorated on Page 586 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

BLACKPOOL CEMETERY
Lancashire, United Kingdom

Grave Reference:

Z. 220.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • 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
  • Roll of Service– From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921.
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • 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.

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