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Rank SBS, Navy Medical Officer
Service # VR 6850
Unit # RCNVR, HMCS Lansdowne
Resident Chatham

Hospital Stewart Davis, previous to enlistment in Naval Service, secured his diploma as a qualified Pharmaceutical Chemist and Druggist for Ontario.

In 1914 he took the full course of instruction of the St. John Ambulance Association at Toronto passed the prescribed exam and received the association certificate of qualification signed by the Duke of Connaught, Governor General.

He was later given an officer’s commission, S.B.S. and dispatched to Sydney, C.B. assigned to Lansdown division of the Naval Service – his official duties being Dispenser and Analytical Chemist and Hospital Stewart to the Navy Hospital.

Due to constant day and night service during the Spanish Influenza epidemic, which was particularly severe at Sydney his vitality was so weakened that when he took the Influenza on Monday Sept. 31, he was unable to withstand the attack and died Friday of the same week, Oct. 4, 1918.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Cenotaph Chatham and Kent County Cenotaph - Chatham
Sources Chatham Daily Planet (27-09-1919)
Supplemental Information Father: I. L. Davis Mother: Mrs. Jennie Davis Brother: Norman N. Davis Sister: Jennie L. Davis
Height 5'7-1/2"
Eye Colour blue
Age 26
Complexion fair
Hair brown
Race white
Birthplace Chatham, Ontario
Religion Methodist
Last Place of Employment Powell & Davis Company, Chatham
Marital Status single
When Enlisted June 26, 1918
Where Enlisted Ottawa, Ontario

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