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Final rank:

Driver

First name/s

Sydney Tomes

Last name

DAVIS

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

2/1882
New Zealand Field Artillery

Also known as

Sydney James DAVIS

Date of birth

30/01/1890

Place of birth

Auckland, New Zealand

Date of death

15/07/1938

Place of death

Auckland, New Zealand

Death registration number

NZ1938/27838

Headstone/grave location

Devonport (O’Neill’s Point) Cemetery, Bayswater, Auckland, New Zealand

Next of kin

Mrs Mary Davis (wife), Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Additional information

Enlisted 17 April 1915 when he, his wife and child were living in Rarotonga and joined New Zealand Field Artillery Ammunition Column. Served at Gallipoli and returned to Egypt 22 December 1915. Medically unfit and embarked for New Zealand 17 March 1916 and discharged 20 May 1916.

Father of Sir Thomas Davis, former Premier of the Cook Islands

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