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Surname: DAVEY
Forename(s): Thomas
Place of Birth: Crosshills, Yorkshire
Service No: 65422
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Northumberland Fusiliers
Battalion / Unit: 1st Battalion
Division: 3rd Division
Age: 19
Date of Death: 1918-05-05
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: III. D. 37.
CWGC Cemetery: CHOCQUES MILITARY CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: CROSSHILLS, YORKSHIRE
Local War Memorial: SUTTON-IN-CRAVEN, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Thomas Davey was the son of George William and Jane Ellen (Annie) Davey, née Parker. George was born at Farsley and Jane at West Marton, Yorkshire. Thomas was the cousin of Corporal John Reid Parker (2067) (q.v.).
1901 Sutton-in-Craven, Yorkshire Census: 3, Overburn Road - Thomas Davey, aged 2 years, born Crosshills, Yorkshire, son of George Wm and Jane A. Davey.
1911 Sutton-in-Craven, Yorkshire Census: 3, Overburn Road - Thomas Davey, aged 12 years, born Crosshills, Yorkshire, son of George W. and Jane A. Davey.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Thomas Davey, 65422, Northumberland Fusiliers.
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
DAVY, Signaller Tom, aged 19, N.F., Overburn, [Sutton], killed in action.
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Private Thomas DAVEY
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Northumberland Fusiliers
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 3rd Division
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St Thomas's Churchyard, Sutton-in-Craven
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St Thomas's Churchyard, Sutton-in-Craven
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St Thomas's Churchyard, Sutton-in-Craven
Family gravestone
St Thomas's Churchyard, Sutton-in-Craven
Family gravestone - detail of memorial inscription
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17 May 1918
Private Thomas Davey, Sutton
Private Thomas Davey, Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, of Sutton, has made the supreme sacrifice. He was closely associated with St. Thomas’s Church and Sunday School, Sutton, was a zealous member of the Church troop of Boy Scouts, and was formerly a clerk for Mr. W. Judge, accountant, Skipton. He had only been out in France six weeks. His brother, Willie Davey, is also out in France.
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24 May 1918
CRAVEN AND THE WAR
Signaller Tom Davy Killed
Mr. and Mrs. George Davy, of Overburn, Sutton, have received information that their younger son, Signaller Tom Davy, of the Northumberland Fusiliers, has been killed in action. He went across to France in February of this year, and was killed on Easter Sunday. He was only in his 20th year. After leaving the Sutton Council School he became a very diligent student at the Glusburn Technical Institute. Later he became a clerk in the office of Mr. Judge, accountant Skipton. He was connected with St. Thomas’s Church Sunday-school, and an enthusiastic supporter of the Boy Scout movement, being for some time patrol leader. He was held in high respect, being a very promising young man. The blow is a very hard one to his parents, who had sacrificed much to give him an opportunity in life. His elder brother is also in France. Reference was made to Gunner Davy’s death by the Vicar (Rev. A.R. Light) at the service on Sunday.
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