Percy Walter Davis

A Civilian, Percy died on 13th of January 1942 at the age of 44.

Percy was born at Cairo, Egypt, on 11 August 1897, a son of Frank and Esther Ellen Davis. Percy’s father was a solider in the 21st Lancers and charged at the Battle of Omdurman on 2 September 1898. In 1899 they family returned to Britain and 1901 they lived at Marlborough Barracks, Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland. They moved to Morayshire, Scotland, about 1905, when Percy’s father became a ‘permanent staff’ Quartermaster Sergeant with the Scottish Horse Yeomanry. In 1912 they lived at Moss Street, Elgin, and later at Moray Cottage, Grant Street, Elgin.

Percy was an apprentice dentist when he enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps at Elgin on 1 August 1916 and served in Egypt. His military employment was Dental Mechanic. On 6 July 1917 he arrived in Egypt. In Egypt he served with the 1/2nd Welsh Field Ambulance, then 66 Casualty Clearing Station before joining 32 Casualty Clearing Station. He returned to England in 1919 and was discharged to the Class Z Reserve on 16 January 1920. 

From 1920 he lived at the Masonic Bar, Clifton Road, Lossiemouth, before he became a student at Saint Andrews University, in 1923, where he studied dentistry and qualified, and became registered, as a Dentist on 7 September 1925. 

Percy is believed to have married Hilda in the early 1920s (date and place not found). By 1930 Percy had a dental practice at 21 Tombland, Norwich, and by 1935 at 102 London Road, Lowestoft.

The 1939 Register shows Percy and Hilda at 102 London Road, but probate records give their home address at Bramley, Normanston Drive, Lowestoft.

Percy was killed at 102 London Road during an air raid.