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62 St Mary’s Street, Ely

History of 62 St Mary's Street

1939

George Brocklesby Davis, b 1873, medical practitioner clerk in holy order,

Lucy Gertrude, b 1881

Anna B, b 1914, SRN St Thomas Hospital, WVS

George B, b 1916, student of theology

Charles Brocklebank, b 1918, student [Keble College]


The Davis family are recorded  in Girls in Green, Michael Rouse, as having given a home to evacuees in WWII.

Charles B Davis was a private with the King’s Own Scottish Borderers. He died 12 Feb 1944, age 26 and is commemorated on the Rangoon Memorial in Burma.

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