Service No – 718
Rank – Trooper
Unit/Division – 10th Light Horse Regiment
Enlistment Date – 06/01/1915
Address on Enlistment – Stirling Street Bunbury WA
Occupation on Enlistment – Stockman
Next of Kin on Enlistment – Father – Ernest Alexander DAVIS – Stirling Street Bunbury WA
Religion – Church of England
Embarkation Details – From Fremantle WA on 19 February 1915 per “Itonus”
Disembarkation – Suez on 17 March 1915
Killed in Action – 7 August 1915 at “The Nek” Walkers Ridge Gallipoli Turkey
Memorial Inscriptions – Lone Pine Memorial Gallipoli – Panel No.10,
– Australian War Memorial Canberra ACT – Panel No. 7
– Kings Park 10th Light Horse Regiment Memorial WA
– Bunbury War Memorial WA
– Picton State School Honour Board WA
Service Medals Awarded – 1914/1915 Star – No. 26595
– British War Medal – No. 9532
– Victory Medal – No. 9484
– Memorial Plaque/Scroll – No. 319127
Action at “The Nek” Walkers Ridge Gallipoli, 7th August 1915.
Trooper DAVIS was ordered to take part in the ill-conceived , heroic and fateful bayonet charge assault on the Turkish trenches on 7 August 1915. (Subject of the prominent Australian Movie Gallipoli). This attack was launched in an Easterly direction from the Australian trenches at Russell’s Top.
Two lines of men from the 8th Light Horse Regiment had already met their fate before DAVIS was sent with a third line comprising 10th Light Horsemen from Western Australia.
Trooper Rowland Dudley DAVIS was amongst 37 South West men killed in this action and he was the only Bunbury Light Horseman to be lost.
LEST WE FORGET