The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

spoons · Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:08 pm Post subject: Rev J Davis, Buittle Church

UKNIWM Ref: 44361

Location - inside Buittle church at OS Map Ref: NX 808 598

Name: DAVIS, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Army Medical Corps
Secondary Unit Text: attd. River Sick Convoy Unit
Age: 38
Date of Death: 22/07/1917
Service No: 84040
Additional information: Son of the Rev. John Davis, of Ballynahinch Manse, Co. Down; husband of Margaret Davis (nee Kernahan), of "Grasmere," Lansdowne Rd., Belfast. Parish Minister of Buittle, Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: IV. E. 22.
Cemetery: AMARA WAR CEMETERY

spoons · Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:12 pm Post subject:

He is also commemorated on the ministers' memorial at St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh.

There is also a 'gravestone' memorial to him inside a derelict church in the grounds of Buittle church. I believe that this gravestone memorial was put up in the 1990s.

spoons · Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 12:48 pm Post subject:

This 'gravestone' memorial is within a Cat A listed ruined church which is also a scheduled ancient monument so I find it hard to believe that permission was given for this in the 1990s.

\Paul

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2017 7:40 pm Post subject:

John Davis – age 38 – Private (84040) River Sick Convoy Unit, Royal Army Medical Corps.
John was educated in Belfast and at Edinburgh University and had been the Minister of Buittle Parish Church since 1907. He enlisted in December 1915, was mobilised in July 1916, sailed in September 1916 for Basra, via Alexandria, Suez and Bombay. He was posted to the RSCU at the end of November and was on one of the first river boats to reach Baghdad after it fell to British troops.. He was admitted to the 2nd British Hospital, Amara on 12 July 1917 and died of heat exhaustion.
Born 1878 in Magheradroll, Ballynahinch. Co. Down, Northern Ireland.
Son of the late Rev. John Davis of Ballynahinch Manse, Co. Down, and of Elizabeth Davis of 116 Fitzroy Avenue, Belfast. Husband of Margaret (Kernahan) Davis of Manse of Buittle and of Grasmere, Lansdowne Road, Belfast who he married in 1908 in Belfast.
Died on Active Service on 22 July 1917 and buried in Amara War Cemetery, Iraq.
Also named on the Memorial to Scottish Ministers in St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh.
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Ken