{"id":345,"date":"2019-10-25T07:52:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=345"},"modified":"2021-04-29T13:02:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T13:02:36","slug":"davis-francis-montague","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/davis-francis-montague\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis, Francis Montague"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Francis Montague Davis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Wireless Operator\/Air Gunner, 10 Squadron<br>Service number 81395<br>Died 9 May 1942<br>Buried Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery, Germany<br>Age 30<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Headstone Inscription<br>&#8216;GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-2-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Francis was born on 11 June 1911 in Willesden to Lionel and Margarethe n\u00e9e Sonn. Francis had four older sisters, Lilian, Elsie, Constance, Marjorie and a younger brother James. Francis&#8217;s father Lionel was a fine art publisher in Brondesbury and pre deceased his son in 1937.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Francis served in the Merchant Navy as a saloon boy until 1929. In the 1939 Register he is listed as living at the City of London school which had been evacuated and was listed as an actor, producer and stage manager.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Francis was a wireless operator on Halifax W7674 which departed from RAF Leeming on a night operation to Warnemunde. The aircraft crashed killing all the crew.  <br>Pilot, 37399, Sqn Ldr Neil Drummond Guthrie<br>F\/E, 570416,  Sgt Alec Ernest Towler <br>Obs, 963007, Sgt Frank Harry Le Vack<br>W\/Op, 919564, Sgt Donald Alexander Clephane &#8211; <br>W\/Op A\/G, 117002,  Plt Off Douglas Walter Hales<br>A\/G, 1378401, Sgt Matthew George Killingbeck<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DAVIS-Francis-Montagu.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1121\" width=\"365\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DAVIS-Francis-Montagu.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DAVIS-Francis-Montagu-120x160.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"883\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Francis-Davis-merchant-navy-700x883.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Francis-Davis-merchant-navy-700x883.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Francis-Davis-merchant-navy-250x315.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Francis-Davis-merchant-navy-768x968.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Francis-Davis-merchant-navy-120x151.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Francis-Davis-merchant-navy.jpg 1703w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Francis Montague Davis Wireless Operator\/Air Gunner, 10 SquadronService number 81395Died 9 May 1942Buried Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery, GermanyAge 30 Headstone Inscription&#8216;GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS&#8217; Francis was born on 11 June 1911 in Willesden to Lionel and Margarethe n\u00e9e Sonn. 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