Able Seaman DAVIES, JOHN WILLIAM
P / JX 337268
Royal Navy
HMS Presidente III
who died age 21
on 01 August 1943
Remembered with honour
CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY
John William ‘Bill’ Davies was born around 1922, in Longport to Samuel and Jane Davies, and he had a number of brothers and sisters. They lived at 11 Princes Square, Longport, Stoke-on-Trent.
He was killed while serving in the Royal Navy at H.M.S. President III attached to SS Makefjell.
He was on this ship as a gunner deployed on Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships.
Each week in the Weekly Sentinel was a column, ‘Scouts and Scouting’ written by ‘Scoutmaster’ or ‘A.S.L.’.
The below comes from that column, probably from October 1943.
It is now almost three months since John William Davies was reported killed in action, but details of his service in Scouting have only recently come to hand. Bill first came in contact with the Movement about 13 years ago when he joined the 39th City (Longport Methodist) Pack. Soon after he went up into the troop, it disbanded, but this did not stop him being a scout. Along with a pal he joined the 1st City (Porthill) Troop, where he made steady progress. Here he soon became a Second and then a Patrol Leader, a position which he held in his usual quiet and steady manner. At the outbreak of war he gave his services as orderly and messenger at the Bradwell Lane A.R.P. Post and continued to attend these duties until he joined the Royal Navy.
Courtesy of http://remember.porthillscouts.org.uk/site/
