{"id":742,"date":"2025-10-01T21:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T20:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smaaa.org.uk\/ww1\/people\/the-parish-fallen\/xxx-copy\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T12:41:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T12:41:57","slug":"davies-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smaaa.org.uk\/ww1\/parish-fallen\/davies-j\/","title":{"rendered":"Davies, J"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smaaa.org.uk\/ww1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/smaaa.org.uk\/ww1\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-pdf-title\">PDF<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/smaaa.org.uk\/ww1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/smaaa.org.uk\/ww1\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">PRINT<\/span><\/a><\/div>\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"742\" class=\"elementor elementor-742\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b3d4110 e-ecs-flex e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"b3d4110\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ecs_container_type&quot;:&quot;flex&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ae41584 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ae41584\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>John Davies was the youngest son of George Davies, born 1871 in Hammersmith, and his wife Emily Marion nee Lyons. They had been married at St Peter\u2019s Church, Hammersmith in 1891. In 1901, the family lived at 8 Saville Road, South Acton. George Edward (8) was the eldest son, Mary Ann was 7, Emily was 5, and Ethel was aged 11 months. John himself had been born on 7 December 1897. George Sr. had described himself as a plumber at his marriage, though a general labourer in 1901. By 1911, the family had moved to 73 Windmill Road in Chiswick. George again was a plumber, his wife worked as an ironer at the local laundry, as did Mary. George Edward worked as an errand boy.<\/p><p>At the time of John\u2019s enlistment into the Royal Navy on 25 November 1914 he had been employed as a porter. He joined HMS Excellent, a shore training establishment, and by 7 December 1915 on attaining the age of 18, he gained the rank of Officer\u2019s Steward, 3rd Class. He joined the crew of <em>HMS Nubian<\/em> as Officer\u2019s Steward 2nd Class on 1 August 1916.<\/p><p><em>HMS Nubian<\/em> was a Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer. She was launched in 1909. During the Battle of Dover Strait, on the night of 26\u201327 October 1916 off Folkestone, <em>Nubian\u2018s<\/em> bows were destroyed by a torpedo from a large German Torpedo boat, one of a flotilla of 23 that had launched a raid against the Dover barrage and other allied shipping in the Channel. <em>Nubian<\/em> had been one of several destroyers brought in as reinforcements after the sinking of the defending destroyer <em>HMS Flirt<\/em> early in the action when a number of Drifters had also been sunk. <em>Nubian<\/em> was taken in tow and run aground at North Foreland.<\/p><p>15 of the crew of <em>HMS Nubian<\/em> were either killed or missing after the battle on 26 October 1916: James Bushell, W. Broomfield, J. Davies, L. Horsley, W, Keeling, F.H.J. Knight, W. Minors, L.E. Pronger, J. Rapson, F. Sayers, J. Sharp, J.W.Smith, W.G. Wavell and Stoker Alfred James Clewley[1]<\/p><p>Another Tribal-class destroyer, <em>Zulu<\/em>, had her stern blown\u2028 off by a mine near Dunkirk on 27 October 1916 and \u2028was towed to Calais. Both wrecks were ultimately towed to\u2028 Chatham Dockyard where <em>Zulu<\/em>&#8216;s bows were joined to the \u2028midsection and stern of <em>Nubian<\/em>. The resulting destroyer was given the portmanteau name <em>Zubian<\/em>, and commissioned on 7 June 1917. <em>Zubian<\/em> served until the end of the war, sinking the mine-laying U-boat UC-50 on 4 February 1918 off the coast of Essex. It was scrapped in 1919.<\/p><p>John has no known grave. He is officially commemorated on the War memorial at Chiswick Old Cemetery.<\/p><p>John\u2019s brother George Edward also became a plumber. He married Elizabeth Lenton at Christ Church Turnham Green on Christmas Day 1913. 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