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2nd Lt. Harold Charles Davis
Royal Flying Corps 104 Squadron
from:Southsea
(d.26th June 1918)
My great uncle Harold Charles Davis served during WW1, first in the Essex Regiment, then, in 1918 transfered to the Royal Flying Corps as an observer/bomb aimer. He joined 104 squadron on 7th April 1918 and during a bombing mission on the 26th June 1918 his plane was shot down in the Vosges mountains in the Alsace region of France and he was killed. He was flying in a DH9 and because of engine trouble the aircraft was forced to leave the formation and tried to return to the airfield but was attacked and crash landed. His pilot Charles Gambier Jenyns survived the attack but was captured by the Germans and spent the rest of the war in Karlsrue prison camp.Harold was one of four brothers who all fought during WW1 and only two were lucky enough to survive. Harold is buried in the Plaine French National Cemetery and was greatly missed by his family.
Harold's headstone
Plaine French National Cemetery
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