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L/Cpl. Albert Victor Davis
British Army 12th Btn. Gloucestershire Reg
from:Tytherington, Glos
(d.22 April 1917)
Albert Davis´s parents were Thomas and Emily of no.2 The Crossings, Tytherington, Glos. His father worked at Tytherington quarry as an engine driver. Albert was one of nine children, four boys and five girls. Before joining the war effort Albert was quarryman at the local quarry and had been a member, as had a younger brother, of the Tytherington Junior Band. (pictured in a photo of the band in 1913). He was aged 17 when he enlisted, with his two older brothers, in 1915 at Bristol. His brothers survived the war. Albert's death appeared a newspaper casualties list, six weeks after he was killed. He has no known grave but is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
