Claude Horace Cecil DAVIES

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DAVIES, Claude Horace Cecil

Service Number:	N283014
Enlisted:	1 December 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Barwon, Picola, Victoria, Australia, 20 August 1898
Home Town:	Paddington, Woollahra, New South Wales
Schooling:	Picola Primary School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Cook
Died:	Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia, 12 November 1972, aged 74 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Kemps Creek Cemetery & Crematorium, NSW
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World War 2 Service

1 Dec 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, N283014
6 Oct 1948:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, N283014

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Claude Horace Cecil Davies (Service No:N283014) initially served in the AIF as a Private (Service No:89532) from 20 May 1918 to 19 November 1918. He enlisted in the ACMF on 1 December 1941 (Cook) and served with 11 and 31 Garrison Battalions. Private Davies was attached to 8 Base Ordnance Depot (BOD) when he re enlisted in the Interim Army on 1 July 1947, and then served with the RASR (Service No:NP84901) from 7 October 1948.

Claude was born in Barwon, Victoria in 1898, third of four children of Arthur Patton Davies (b1870 in Melbourne, Victoria) and his first wife Catherine Bridget O'Neill (b1871 in Melbourne, Victoria). Arthur and Catherine married in 1893 in Nathalia in Victoria, where they settled and raised their family and Arthur was an Estate Agent and Commercial Traveller. Following Catherine's death in 1905, Arthur moved with his children to Sydney, where he remarried (another four marriages). Arthur served in the Army in WWI (Home Service; Staff Sergenat; Service No:101) with Australian Army Pay Corps - he gave his occupation as Clerk in his Attestation Papers.

Claude was a Glass Worker in Sydney when he enlisted in the AIF in 1918 (giving his step mother Ruby as NoK), and following his Discharge moved to Melbourne, where he worked as a Waiter at the Spotswood Hotel in Melbourne Ports. In the 1930s he lived in Orange, New South Wales and worked as a Labourer and Shop Assistant, and in 1941 was a Cook in Sydney when he enlisted in the ACMF (giving his step mother Ruby as NoK). Following his Discharge from the Army, Claude settled in Sydney where he worked as a Cook until retirement. Claude died in 1972.

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