Name Joseph John Davies No. 10236, 34314, T1950 & 4103165
VC Issue No. 731 Awards VC
Regiment Royal Welch Fusiliers, 10th Battalion, D Company
Later
Now 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh Regiment
Rank VC Won Corporal
Rank End Of Career Staff-Sergeant
Place Of Birth Tipton, Staffordshire, England
Place Of Death Bournemouth Hospital, Bournemouth, Dorset, England
Buried/Location Ashes Evening Hill, overlooking Poole Harbour, Dorset, England
Cremated Bournemouth Crematorium, Strouden Avenue, Dorset, England
Date Buried/Cremated 25 February 1976
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 26 September 1916
VC Presented 7 October 1916 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Memorial Plaque, Greatbridge School, Tipton, Now at the Black Country Living Museum, Tipton Road, Dudley, West Midlands
P Blue Plaque, The Kings Arms, Toll End Road, Tipton, Staffordshire
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, War Memorial, Victoria Park, Victoria Road, Tipton, Staffordshire
P Davies Court, Barracks Field Estate, off Kingsmill Road, Hightown, Wrexham, Clwyd, Wales
P Memorial Stone At Site Of VC Action, Deville Wood, Somme, France
By The Way…
For a brief time he served in the Camel Corps in Egypt
VC Held By
Regimental Museum of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, The Queen's Tower, Caernarfon Castle, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
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Prior to an attack in Delville Wood, he became separated from the rest of his company along with 8 other men and on a second counter attack by the enemy they became completely surrounded. He got them into a shell hole and by throwing bombs and opening rapid fire they succeeded in routing the enemy and he even bayoneted several of the enemy as they retreated
