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Fairydust

Fairydust Report 21 Jan 2009 00:00

Thanks for info so far guys, has been a great help

Julcoe

Julcoe Report 20 Jan 2009 23:57

1901 England Census about Reginald Ernest Davis
Name: Reginald Ernest Davis
Age: 13
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1888
Relation: Son
Father's Name: Samuel
Mother's Name: Eliza
Gender: Male
Where born: Hardwicke, Gloucestershire, England

Civil Parish: Quedgeley
Ecclesiastical parish: Quedgeley
County/Island: Gloucestershire
Country: England

Street address: ? Bristol Rd.
Occupation: House Boy in ?? ?? Dom.

Registration district: Gloucester
Sub registration district: South Hamlet
ED, institution, or vessel: 4

Household schedule number: 38
Household Members: Name Age
Samuel Davis 35 Labourer in Timber Yard
Eliza Davis 36
Arthur Davis 15 Labourer in Saw Mill .. Sawyer
Reginald Ernest Davis 13
Charle Andrew Davis 11 School Boy
Minnie Davis 8
Albert Wm Davis 6
Florence May Davis 2

Researching:
Ablett, Baldwin, Coombe, Daniels, Edkins, Pascoe, Prowse, Seager

Julcoe

Julcoe Report 20 Jan 2009 23:53

British Army WWI Pension Records 1914-1920 about Ernest Reginald Davis
Name: Ernest Reginald Davis
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1888
Age at enlistment: 18yrs 7mths
Birth Parish: Harwicke
Birth County: Gloucestershire
Document Year: 1906
Regimental number: 12582
Number of Images: 14

On the original document it also states ....
Corps .. Grenadier Guards
Trade or Calling .. Groom & Gardener.

Researching:
Ablett, Baldwin, Coombe, Daniels, Edkins, Pascoe, Prowse, Seager

Porkie_Pie

Porkie_Pie Report 20 Jan 2009 23:45

this looks like his medal card on ancestry

Name: E R Davis
[Ernest Davis]
Regiment or Corps: 1st Grenadier Guards
Regimental number: 12582

Having looked at the image it is the same medal card used for Terratorial soldiers and he is a private, lots of men where in the TA when war broke out, then signed up as regulars


I think this is the same man the medal card is the normal index card and he is down as acting corporal

Name: Ernest Davis
[E R Davis]
Regiment or Corps: Grenadier Guards
Regimental number: 12582

same two cards for the national archives

Medal card of Davis, E R
Corps: 1st Grenadier Guards
Regiment No: 12582
Rank: Private
1914-1920 WO 372/5
Medal card of Davis, Ernest
Corps: Grenadier Guards
Regiment No: 12582
Rank: Acting Corporal
1914-1920 WO 372/5

Roy

Fairydust

Fairydust Report 20 Jan 2009 23:41

I am trying to find out any information on Ernest Reginald Davis, I know he was a sergant in the 1st world war, as I have a photograph of him and it says :
Grenadier Guards Jan 1917.
I am sorry but am not sure of his date of birth, and I think he was probarly born in the Gloucestershire area.
Thanks