Studio portrait of 3503 Private (Pte) George Young Davis, 23rd Battalion, 21 December 1915

AWM description: "Studio portrait of 3503 Private (Pte) George Young Davis, 23rd Battalion. A house painter from Oakleigh, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Davis embarked with the 8th Reinforcements from Melbourne aboard HMAT Afric on 5 January 1916. Later transferring to the 59th Battalion, on 25 July 1916 he died, aged 36, at the 8th Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, France from wounds received in action at Fromelles. He was buried in the Wimereux Communal Cemetery, France."

The service record of Private George Young Davis notes his next of kin as being his father, also named George Young Davis, of Regent Street, Oakleigh. The Sands & McDougalls directory of Victoria: 1915 notes a Chas (Charles) E Davis as operating a livery stable in Regent Street.

The 1915 electoral roll shows a George Young Davis (painter) and Charlotte Davis (home duties) at 101 Surrey Road, South Yarra, likely referring to the photo's subject and his mother.

Pvt Davis' next of kin was later changed to his widowed mother, Charlotte Davis of Wills Road, Oakleigh, his father having died at the age of 72 in 1916. However, there is no Wills Road, Oakleigh, and official mail so addressed was returned as unclaimed. In October 1919 The Argus newspaper published a request for his next of kin to contact Base Records at Victoria Barracks. Oddly, and perhaps inappropriately, this callout appears in the last paragraph of an unrelated article on the sport of Rifle Shooting. Mrs Davis appears to have made contact sometime after that date.

The 1921 electoral roll shows a Charlotte Davis living in Fells Road, Oakleigh, C/o Jones. However, just as Wills Road appears not to have existed, neither does Fells Road appear in the contemporary Sands and McDougalls directories. Both Wills and Fells might be corruptions of Wells Road, Oakleigh.

Accession Number:DA13295
Collection type: Photograph
Object type: Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker: Darge Photographic Company
Place made: Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Broadmeadows
Date made: 28 December 1915
ConflictFirst World War, 1914-1918

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Image and text source: www.awm.gov.au/collection/C977456

Taken on: October 2, 2020

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Groups appears in: • Trove: Australia in Pictures • The Great War Archive Flickr Group more » • War in France • All Photos of World War I • 100 Years: The Great War, 1914- 1918 | 2014-2018 • Monash City local history « less

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