Edwin DAVIES
Born 27 February 1889 in Perth, Western Australia [30]
Son of Edwin DAVIES and Mary Ellen TAYLOR [15]
In 1915 he was working as a Labourer and living with his parents at Terrace Road in the Perth suburb of East Guildford [30]
Enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) in Perth on 29 December 1915[30: item 1899566]
On enlistment he was recorded as 5 feet 6½ inches tall, weighing 129 lbs., with brown hair, brown eyes and a dark complexion [30]
After military training in Claremont he was appointed on 27 March 1916 to the "A" Company of the 44th Battalion [30]
Embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia for active service abroad on the H.M.A.T. A29 Suevic on 6 June 1916 [18]
Disembarked in England, and on 16 September 1916 proceeded to France where he was posted to the 11th Battalion [30]
Private 38A in the Australian Imperial Force's 11th Battalion in France during the First World War [30]
Returned to England in November 1916 suffering from rheumatic fever, and five months later returned to Australia [30]
Discharged from the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) on 28 July 1917; received the British War Medal and the Victory Medal [30]
Married (1) Elizabeth Grace POOLE in the Perth suburb of Guildford in 1918 [15]
Railway Fettler / Line Repairer for the Midland Railway Company in Carnamah 1918-1920 [6] [39: 11-Oct-1918] [50]
His good friend Alfred T. DEVEREUX was Killed in Action while serving with the A.I.F. in France in August 1918 [39: 11-Oct-1918]
He placed a notice in the Killed in Action section of The West Australian newspaper of 11 October 1918 for his "dear pal" [39]
"Forget him! no, we never will; Dear is the memory he left behind; Of a life that was manly and true" [39: 11-Oct-1918]
Donated 6/- to the appeal for William B. and Sarah J. HAMMOND of Wannamal who lost their house in a fire in 1919 [10: 23-May-1919]
Railway Fettler in Three Springs 1921-1941 [6] [19]
His wife passed away at the age of 42 years on 8 February 1936 and was buried in the Three Springs General Cemetery [24]
Wrote to the Three Springs Road Board in February 1936 thanking them their expressions of sympathy and condolence [5: 28-Feb-1936]
Married (2) Ruby Emma BADCOCK in Three Springs in 1937 [15]
Played for the "Railways" in their lost cricket match with the Three Springs Cricket Club on Sunday 21 February 1937 [5: 26-Feb-1937]
Made a statutory declaration in Three Springs before local chemist and J.P. William Q. HARRIS on 31 December 1938 [30]
The declaration was for a new copy of his Australian Imperial Force discharge certificate, which he had lost [30: item 1899566]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Swanbourne [2]
Father of two children by his first wife, including a son Eric Clive [5: 14-Feb-1936] [15]
Died 16 June 1964; ashes interred at Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth, Western Australia (Crematorium Rose Gardens, U, 113) [2]
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Edwin Davies' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 26 December 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/edwin-davies [reference list] |
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