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John Davey served as a Private in the Northumberland Fusiliers. The Beverley Guardian 26 Aug 1916 notes he was wounded and had been repatriated to hospital in Manchester but does not specify the nature of his injuries or where they had occurred. His medal records from 1920 note that he ended the war in the 2nd Garrison Battalion of the Fusiliers. This Battalion served in Egypt after Jan 1917.
John was born 22 Feb 1891 in Walkington and living in East End until his family moved to 42 Norwood Walk, Beverley. His father George was a bricklayer born in the village, his mother Hannah, nee Jobson, was from Etton. They had seven children. The 1911 census shows John was a coal hawker or carter in Beverley. In 1918 John married Elsie May Dosser, of Walkergate, Beverley. They had four children: Doreen, John William, Joan and Gordon. They lived in Hull at 133 St Paul Street. The 1939 Register shows John was working as a grave digger and that his son, John, was working as a grocer's van lad and daughter, Joan was working as an edible nut cracker. John died in 1971.
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