Private 31077 Walter Davies of the 2nd Battalion, the South Lancashire Regiment was the son of Walter Davies and his wife Sarah of Brook House, Hyssington.

The 1911 census finds him as a waggoner at Graig Dolfor, Newtown, Montgomeryshire. He is a waggoner employed by farmer John Powell. He was also employed at some time, in the same capacity, for his uncle Mr Harris at Prospect Villa, Bishops Castle.

Following the outbreak of war, Walter enlisted on the 24th of April 1915 at Shrewsbury into the 2nd/4th Battalion the Kings Shropshire Light Infantry. On the 7th of September 1916 he embarked for France and went with his unit to the Infantry Depot at Rouen.

On the 16th of September he was one of eighty five soldiers of the battalion to be attached to the South Lancashire Regiment at Cramont where it was resting following heavy fighting on the Somme.

The battalion then fought in the Battle of Messines in June 1917 and fought at Passchendaele before moving south to the Arras sector where it defended against the German spring offensive of 1918, followed by the great advance that was to lead to the end of the war.

Following the Armistice, Walter returned home on leave in 1919 but became ill and died of apoplexy at Berrington War Hospital, Shrewsbury on the 19th of January 1919 aged 26.

Walter is buried beneath a non CWGC headstone upon which is inscribed that he was the eldest son of Walter of Brook House and nephew of WE and L Harris of Prospect Villa, Bishops Castle.