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JAMES LLEWELLYN DAVIES V.C. FRONT ROW, 5th. FROM LEFT

JAMES LLEWELLYN DAVIES V.C.

On 31 July 1917 at Polygon Wood, Pilkem, Belgium, during an attack on the enemy line, Corporal Davies, single-handed, attacked a machine-gun emplacement after several men had been killed in attempting to take it. He bayoneted one of the gun crew and brought in another, together with a captured gun. Then although wounded, he led a bombing party to the assault of a defended house and killed a sniper who was harassing his platoon. He died of his wounds the same day