Rudolph Ellis Davies
Lieutenant 1^st/7^th Battalion Duke of Wellington’s
(West Riding Regiment)

 Division 15

Rudolph Ellis Davies was the son of Baptist Minister Reverend A. J. Davies and Mrs K Davies.  At the time of CWGC registration Mrs Davies address is given as 29, Montague Road, Cambridge.  Rudolph is remembered on the grave that bears both the name of his sister Gwen, who died aged 19, September 29^th 1905 and the Reverend Davies who died on May 19^th 1916, aged 55. 

 Rudolph Davies died on 11^th August 1917, aged 27, during the very heavy fighting of the battle of 3^rd Ypres. It is not known exactly when Rudolph Davies received the wounds that caused his death.  The 11^th August was the day the Germans launched a heavy counter attack and pressed the British line back in Glencorse Wood. 

 Davies is buried in Adinkerke Military Cemetery, De Panne, West- Vlaanderen, Belgium.  Location G. 3.  Adinkerke was an area that hosted two major Casualty Clearing Stations serving the British XV Corps that held the front from the Belgium coast to St Georges.