James Franklin Davis

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

270477

Unit at enlistment:

215th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Cemetery:

Mount Hope Cemetery, Soldiers' Plot, Brantford, Ontario

Birth country:

U.S.A.

Birth county:

Hennepin

Birth city:

Minneapolis, Minnisota

Address at enlistment:

3 Balfour Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

3 Balfour Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Farmer

Religious denominations:

Methodist

Marital status:

Married

Age at enlistment:

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BX October 3, 1967

James Franklin Davis

James F. Davis, 75 of 10 Jarvis Street, died Monday in the Brantford General Hospital. He was born at Fargo, N.D. the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Davis, and had been a resident of Brantford the past 71 years. Mr. Davis was a former employee of the Massey-Ferguson Verity Works for 33 years, retiring in 1959, and was a member of the company’s Quarter Century Club. He was a veteran of the First World War, serving overseas. Mr. Davis was a member of Branch 90, Royal Canadian Legion, the Army, Navy and Air Force Club, and the Brantford Senior Citizens. Surviving are his wife, the former Helen Moore; three sons, Charles, of Ottawa, Lorne, of Brantford, Harold, of Anniston, Alta.; two daughters, Mrs. John (Clara) Gadsby and Miss Lexie Davis, both of Brantford; two step-sons, Jerry and Lionel Wickson; and one step-daughter, Mrs. John (Shirley) Brown, all of Brantford; one brother, Joseph of Brantford; three sisters, Mrs. Wilbur (Eva) Telfer, Mrs. James (Mary) Hunter, both of Mount Pleasant, Mrs. August (Lillian) Chiasson, of Brantford; 32 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren. Mr. Davis is at the Hill and Robinson Funeral Home until Thursday, for service in the chapel at 2 p.m. Interment will be in the Soldiers’ Plot at Mount Hope Cemetery.