DAVIS Walter

Appears in the Worcester/Worcestershire Roll of Honour Book for army casualties located in Worcester Cathedral.

Walter Davis is a suggested casualty on Worcester St Martin’s Church.

The following information is courtesy of Kate Conway, great niece of Walter Davis:
Walter was the son of Hubert and Annie Davis who ran a shop at 7 Ivy Street, Worcester. His father was a stonemason who worked in Worcester.  Walter had six siblings: Ada, Hubert, Lily, Anne Elizabeth, Dorothy and Harold (who served in WW2).

A photograph of Lance Corporal W. Davis of Worcester can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 2nd November 1918, available at Worcestershire Archives.

The following information has been researched by Geoff Hill:
1911 Census
8 Gregory’s Mill Street, Barbourne
Walter Davis, aged 12, born Southampton
At the same address: Hubert (father), mother, 1 brother and 3 sisters.

Walter Davis is very likely to have been engaged in “The Hundred Days Offensive”. This was the final period of the First World War during which the Allies launched a series of offensives against the Central Powers on the Western Front from 8th August to 11th November 1918, beginning with the Battle of Amiens. The offensive essentially pushed the Germans out of France, forcing them to retreat beyond the Hindenburg Line, and was followed by an armistice. The term “Hundred Days Offensive” does not refer to a specific battle or unified strategy, but rather the rapid series of Allied victories starting with the Battle of Amiens. The battle of Cambrai-St. Quentin, 27th September – 9th October 1918, was the main British contribution to the all-out attack on the Hindenburg line.