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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Barbara Alice DAVIES: Birth: 14 JUN 1887. Death: 08 JUL 1964 in Maidstone, Kent, England

  2. Percy William WILTON-DAVIES: Birth: 14 JAN 1890 in Hougham, Dover, Kent, England. Death: 11 JUL 1975 in St. Mary, Jersey, Channel Islands

  3. Gerald Alfred DAVIES: Birth: 22 JUL 1899 in , Bombay, India. Death: 27 MAY 1961 in Lewisham, Blackheath, Kent, England

  4. Arthur Frederick DAVIES: Birth: 30 SEP 1903 in Aldershot, Crondall, Hampshire, England. Death: 26 DEC 1990 in Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia


Sources
1. Title:   Marriage Certificate or Register Entry
2. Title:   Sir John Smyth, "Great Stories of the Victoria Cross" (Arthur Barker Ltd, London, 1977)
3. Title:   Death Certificate or Death Register Entry
4. Title:   Hospital Records
5. Title:   Family Correspondence
6. Title:   newspaper
Page:   Jersey Evening Post
7. Title:   LDS, CD-ROM library of 1881 census of England, Scotland, Wales, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and Royal Navy (LDS)
8. Title:   Jersey General Hospital, compiler, <i>Jersey General Hospital Admission Register</i> (St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands: Jersey General Hospital,)
Page:   D/AN/B1/67, 1944
9. Title:   L.P. Sinel, The German Occupation of Jersey - A Complete Diary of Events from June 1940 to June 1945. (Evening Post, Jersey. 1946.)
Page:   p194
10. Title:   newspaper
Page:   Les Chroniques de Jersey, Samedi le 27 Mai 1944
11. Title:   Public Records
Page:   Superintendent of Cemeteries, St Helier.
12. Title:   Gravestone Inscription
13. Title:   Invoice
14. Title:   newspaper
Page:   Jersey Evening Post.
15. Title:   on-line catalogue (Jersey Archive, Clarence Rd, St Helier, Jersey JE2 4JY archives@jerseyheritagetrust.org)
Page:   will D/Y/A/75/106

Notes
a. Note:   Employed at Woolwich Arsenal until 1876. His father's name is
 from his marriage certificate; the civilian version is Robert DAVIES,
 the military version is William DAVIES, a pensioner of 4th Batty. 5
 Brigade R. A. In 1928, was living in St Helier (as on PWWD-D's marriage certificate). Records of St Helier General Hospital give his place of
 birth as Gibraltar; this is confirmed in a letter from him to PWW-D.
 His father (on his military marriage certificate) is described as a
 pensioner of 5th Brigade, Royal Artillery.
 Red Cross letter to PWW-D dated 13 April 1944 (reply to letter dated
 Dec 1943):- "Glad to hear from you. How is Gerald and Barbara? Had
 cataract removed from right eye. Left eye to be done also. Hope all
 well."
b. Note:   in the Casement Barracks.
 There is no entry similar to this in the Army Returns - Births - 1796 to 1880. No William Thomas DAVIES, but [1] William DAVIES bn Malta 1868-69, page 739 & [2] William Edward DAVIES bn Madras 1844-46, p659. [3] William Henry DAVIS bn Gibraltar 1873-74, p377, [4] William Levi DAVIS bn Gibraltar 1870-72, p835, [5] several William DAVIS's, none bn Gibraltar.
 No entry in GRO Consular Birth Indices.
 The 1881 census records him as bn Gibraltar about 1859.
c. Note:   Died in General Hospital, St Helier, of carcinoma of head of pancreas
 & cholaemia, as certified by A.S. Darling. Registrar was A. Le Breton,
 informed by Edward JG Mourant, Secretary of the General Hospital on 25
 May 1944.His death certificate gives his age as 86 years and 4 months,
 suggesting he was born about January 1858. Entry 271 of St Helier
 register of deaths. Jersey Evening Post, Fri 26 May 1944. DEATHS.
 DAVIES - Passed peacefully away on Wednesday, the 24th inst., William
 Thomas Davies, aged 86 years, of Parkdene, West Park Avenue. Deeply
 regretted. FUNERAL. All friends wishing to attend the funeral service
 are invited to meet at the Hospital Chapel on Saturday morning, the
 27th inst., at 11.45. He was buried in New Mont a l'Abbe Cemetery.
 "The German Occupation of Jersey". May 24. Many people wore roses
 to-day in honour of Empire Day. Planes over continually and sounds of
 bombing heard from the French coast.... "Les Chroniques de Jersey"
 (newspaper), Samedi le 27 Mai 1944: Etat-Civil, St Helier: Deces...
 24, William Thomas Davies, ag�ee de 86 ans et 4 mois.
 JEP, 6 June 1944 - St Helier's Civil Register Deaths...
 May 24 William Thomas Davies, aged 86 years and 4 months.
d. Note:   Buried in New Mont � l'Abb� cemetery, St Helier, square S, #72, 1st
 N. Pink granite kerb, inscribed :- In Loving Memory of William Thomas DAVIES, died May 24th 1944, aged 86 years; no headstone.
 Undertakers were Croad [now taken over by Pitcher & Le Quesne Ltd].
 [Account for funeral]:-
 Estate of Mr William Thomas Davies
 To a polished pine coffin, inside linings, Brass breastplate & handles
 for Mr Davies �12.0.0
 Hire of Glass hearse & 1 Coach � 4.10.0
 2 drivers
  4.0
 Rev Labb & Verger
 12.8
 Hospital for Shrouding 8.6
 Burial plot at Mont a L'Abb� � 3. .
 Interment fee � 1. 5.
 Announcing details of funeral 6.
 Attendance to arrangements of funeral with bearers
 � 2.12.6
 Total
 � 24.18.8
 paid by cheque from Lloyds Bank on 25 June 1944
e. Note:   Institution:"Hut Encampment" Pembroke Dock
 Census Place:Pembroke St Mary, Pembroke, Wales
 Source:FHL Film 1342304 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 5413 Folio 124
 Page 8
 MarrAgeSexBirthplace
 John LEWISU28 MAshton Gate Bristol, Gloucester, England
 Occ:Private 1/7th Fusrs
 Albert SLATTERU19 MLondon Whitechapel, London, Middlesex, England
 Occ:Private 1/7th Fusrs
 William ROSEU23 MLondon Marylebone, London, Middlesex, England
 Occ:Private 1/7th Fusrs
 Dennis MARTINU27 MScull Co Cork, Ireland
 Occ:Private 1/7th Fusrs
 Frederick BRADU25 MBishop Stortford, Hertford, England
 Occ:Private 1/7th Fusrs
 Thomas WILLIAMSU23 MPortsmouth, Hampshire, England
 Occ:Private 1/7th Fusrs
 George LITTLEU33 MLake Patrick Shabane Co Tyrone, Ireland
 Occ:Private 1/7th Fusrs
 Frank G.W. PITMANU19 MWalmer, Kent, England
 Occ:Drummer 1/7th Fusrs
 Albert E. ROWEU19 MWalmer, Kent, England
 Occ:Private 1/7th Fusrs
 Thomas LUCASU22 MTunbridge, Kent, England
 Occ:Private 1/7th Fusrs
 William T. DAVIESU22 MGibraltar
 Occ:Corporal 1/7th Fusrs
  Did they sail on the ship SERAPIS, which sailed for India on 14th April 1881?
f. Note:   The India Office Register of Marriages at Coonor (now in Tamil Nadu)
 gives her father's name as Alfred Wilton, and witnesses as G. Mills,
 F. Willis & E. Mills - the chaplain was N.J. Brannon. The Service
 Departments Register for the Command of the 2nd Bn. Royal Fusiliers
 gives her occupation as School Mistress, Royal Fusiliers, father as
 John Wilton, an engineer. Witnesses were T. Mills and F. Willis.
 Chaplain was R.J. Brandon. William Thomas Davies was a Sergeant, Royal
 Fusiliers, his father was William Davies, pensioner of 4th Batty. 5
 Bde. R.A. Both were resident in Wellington, both aged 28. Married by
 License in Coonor Church.


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