Joseph Davis
Private 3154
49th Battalion Australian Imperial Force
Division 40
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Joseph Davis, is commemorated on a family memorial. Grave number 8790. He was killed in action at Dernancourt, a small village SW of Albert, Somme, on 5th April 1918. The village was captured by the Germans for a time during the spring offensive to be reclaimed later in the year by the allies.
Joseph Davis has no known grave. His name is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. This is the Australian National Monument erected to commemorate Australian soldiers who fought in France and Belgium, to their dead, and especially those of the dead who have no known graves. These soldiers fell in the battlefields of the Somme, Arras and the “Hundred Days”. There are over 10,000 casualties commemorated on this memorial.