1st Canadian Mounted Rifles Robert Frederick Nott Davis - Regimental # 114155 Brother to our Grandmother-Winnifreth 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles Born on Valentines Day - Feb 14th 1896 in St Anns Bristol England. Missing in action during spring fighting in Belgium 1916. Presumed to have died on May 6, 1916, memorialized at Sanctuary Woods, Yypres, 1916. Robert Frederick Nott Davis is a great uncle to me. He is our Grannies (on Dads side) older brother by just 1 year. His parents are Florence Amelia Nott and George Robert Davis - both born in Bristol England. According to the census in England his father worked as an antiques dealer and their mom as a schoolmistress, it seems the family lived on the school grounds at Chekendon School in Oxfordshire. The year after his birth, a little sister came along named Winnifreth Councel (our grandmother). Sometime after this birth the family moved to Somerset where ...
The race to populate Canada began in the 1600s. It reached its height in the late 1800s and early 1900s, then was abruptly stifled with the onset of WWII. These are the stories of those people. The story of the brave adventurous individuals that boarded ships looking for the promise of free land & untold wealth. These are Canada's stories....