Charles Robert Davis

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

225551

Unit at enlistment:

1st Canadian Mounted Rifles

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Date of death:

April 7th, 1917

Cemetery:

Nine Elms Military Cemetery - Pas de Calais, France - III.F.4.

Birth country:

U.S.A.

Birth county:

Hennepin

Birth city:

Minniapolis, Minnisota

Address at enlistment:

Echo Place P.O., Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

Echo Place P.O., Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Labourer

Religious denominations:

Baptist

Marital status:

Married

Age at enlistment:

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Letters and documents

Circumstances of service: Killed

Circumstances of Casualty: Previously reported Missing, now Killed in Action
Location of Unit at Time of Casualty: Attack on Vimy Ridge.

BX May 22, 1917

The sad intelligence that their son Private Charles Davis had been killed in action was conveyed to Mr. and Mrs. H. Davis, of 3 Balfour Street, this morning.

BC May 22, 1917

Mr. and Mrs. H. Davis, 3 Balfour Street, have received the sad intelligence that their son Trooper Charles Robert Davis of the Canadian Mounted Rifles was killed in action on April 10th last. He enlisted in Brantford during the year 1915, joining the 25th Brant Dragoons and being transferred thence to the C.M.R.