Robert Davies, Age 31

Private, 19606, 9th Service Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment.

South Staffordshire Regiment Cap Badge.

Robert was the son of Mr & Mrs Mark Davies of 37 Malinslee Terrace (Skylight Row), Dawley.

Before joining the army on July 1st 1915, he had been employed at the Hednesford Colliery and like several other Dawley lads who gave their lives in the First war had been educated at the Langley Council School. He had a brother who served with the KSLI and his sister's husband served in the Devonshire Regiment.

He was killed in Action on the 29th July 1916 and although at the time he was listed as been buried at East Pozieres Cemetery his body was never found after the war and his name appears on the Thiepval Memorial Pier & Face 7b.

WWI Medal Rolls Index Card

Commonwealth War Graves
commemorated Thiepval Memorial

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Victory Medal	British War Medal