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==Military service==
==Military service==
Stratton Davis began his military career as an enlisted soldier. He was promoted from lance-corporal in the Royal Engineers, South Midland Divisional Engineers, to second lieutenant in October 1915.<ref>https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29322/supplement/10017/data.pdf</ref> He was awarded the [[Military Cross]] in 1918 at which time his rank was lieutenant, acting major. His citation read:
Stratton Davis began his military career as an enlisted soldier. He was promoted from lance-corporal in the Royal Engineers, South Midland Divisional Engineers, to second lieutenant in October 1915.<ref>https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29322/supplement/10017/data.pdf</ref> He was awarded the [[Military Cross]] in 1918 when he was lieutenant, acting major, for:
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For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in organising the digging of a line of posts under heavy machine-gun fire and visiting them all at great personal risk. On another occasion he displayed great determination and courage in collecting and assisting to reorganise, under artillery and machine-gun fire, the troops which had passed through the line of posts held by his company.<ref>https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30813/supplement/8793</ref></blockquote>
...conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in organising the digging of a line of posts under heavy machine-gun fire and visiting them all at great personal risk. On another occasion he displayed great determination and courage in collecting and assisting to reorganise, under artillery and machine-gun fire, the troops which had passed through the line of posts held by his company.<ref>https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30813/supplement/8793</ref></blockquote>


==Architecture==
==Architecture==

Revision as of 23:04, 2 September 2017

Howard Stratton Davis MC (1885 - after 1970) was a British Army officer of the Royal Engineers and architect. He specialised in churches, vicarages and rectories.

Military service

Stratton Davis began his military career as an enlisted soldier. He was promoted from lance-corporal in the Royal Engineers, South Midland Divisional Engineers, to second lieutenant in October 1915.[1] He was awarded the Military Cross in 1918 when he was lieutenant, acting major, for:

...conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in organising the digging of a line of posts under heavy machine-gun fire and visiting them all at great personal risk. On another occasion he displayed great determination and courage in collecting and assisting to reorganise, under artillery and machine-gun fire, the troops which had passed through the line of posts held by his company.[2]

Architecture

He was FSA.

He traded as Stratton Davis, Yates and Dolman.[3][4]

Among his notable work is grade II listed Holy Trinity Church, Longlevens, (1933-34) which he designed in a fifteenth century perpendicular Gothic style along with most of the interior fittings.[5]

He was secretary and treasurer of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Trust.

His son, David Stratton Davis was also an architect.[6]

Selected publications

  • Cox, John Charles. (1949) Gloucestershire. (Eighth edition) London: Methuen & B.T. Batsford. (Reviser)

References

  1. ^ https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29322/supplement/10017/data.pdf
  2. ^ https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30813/supplement/8793
  3. ^ http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/73730f85-66a8-4c64-aabd-6d2baad0468f
  4. ^ http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/01f6e1fb-1f39-407e-935b-b52251a6b7ac
  5. ^ Historic England. "Church of the Holy Trinity (1419405)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  6. ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=m9W2XH11-9EC&pg=PA124