Davies G 2nd Lt 24th London Regiment
SECOND LIEUTENANT G. DAVIES
24th (COUNTY OF LONDON) BATTALION, THE LONDON REGIMENT (THE QUEEN’S), T.F
.GRIFFITH DAVIES was the eldest surviving son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Davies, Downhurst, Ealing.
He entered the School in 1907, left in 1911, matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, and was in France, reading for honours, when War broke out. Returning as soon as the completion of the French mobilisation permitted, he joined the 24th Battalion London Regiment and went on active service with it in March, 1915. He was shot through the lower part of the body when getting his platoon into trenches in an exposed position under fire in bright moonlight, on April 29th, and died in Hospital at Béthune on May 1st, 1915. Age 22.
His Colonel said :-“He was doing well in every way, giving a good example of coolness under fire, and having a good influence generally.”
Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1