Norman Ernest Davis

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DAVIS, Norman Ernest

Service no: 825 [1]

Place of birth: Orange

Address: New Wentworth Hotel, Broken Hill

Occupation: Miner

Next of kin: C. Davis, Orange

Date of enlistment: 29 August 1914

Place of enlistment: Morphettville, SA

Age at enlistment: 23

Fate: Embarked A11 Ascanius Adelaide 20 October 1914. Admitted to 2nd Light Horse Field Ambulance at Gallipoli suffering a gunshot wound to the head 18 August 1915. Transferred to 3rd Field Ambulance, Gallipoli 19 August 1915. Transferred to Hospital Ship Clacton 23 August 1915, then the 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station at Mudros, and finally No. 1 Canadian Stationary Hospital at Lemnos with a fractured skull 23 August 1915. Died of wounds, from compound fracture of the skull and septic meningitis, Lemnos, Greece

Date of death: 31 August 1915

Buried: Portianos Cemetery, Mudros West, Lemnos, Greece, Plot 1, Row B, Grave 58