Herbert Davis

Second Lieutenant Herbert Pinder Davis was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1889, in Hampstead, the son of solicitor Edward Pinder and Janet Esther Davis (née Birnbaum), both of Manchester. Davis studied firstly at Heath Mount before gaining a scholarship to Tonbridge School. He enlisted soon after the outbreak of war in August 1914, as a private in the 3rd London Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, and went to the Western Front in January 1915.The Times (41242), Col B, p. 9: "Fallen Officers". 10 August 1916.
Davis' tour concluded in October, when he was withdrawn to Britain on being commissioned into the Essex Regiment. He died within two weeks of returning to the front, on 23 July 1916, of wounds received.
He is buried in Dive Copse British Cemetery, Sailly-le-Sec.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Davis, Herbert Pinder, cwgc.org. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
Category:1889 births
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