DAVIES, Aldborough Henry
| Service Number: | Officer |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | Royal Field Artillery |
| Born: | Naracoorte, South Australia, Australia, 9 March 1882 |
| Home Town: | Wagin, Wagin, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Fremantle School, Geelong College |
| Occupation: | Solicitor |
| Died: | Died of Wounds, Al Basrah, Basra, Iraq, 18 April 1916, aged 34 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Basra Memorial, Kings Park Western Australia State War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Lieutenant, Officer, Royal Field Artillery |
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Son of Aldborough John DAVIES and Marian nee BOTTERILL
Born on 9 March 1882, the son of Aldborough J Davies and Maria, nee Botterill, he attended Fremantle School, WA, before his admission to Geelong College in February 1895. At College he was enrolled as Oldborough. He went on to Geelong Grammar School on 15 October 1896 where he matriculated in May 1900, leaving school later that year. After reading Law, he was articled to a firm of solicitors in Perth before admission to the practice in 1910.
He went to England to enlist in April 1915 gaining a commission in the Royal Field Artillery (RFA). He went to the Mediterranean with the British Expeditionary Forces, serving on Gallipoli and was subsequently evacuated from Helles. On 17 April 1916 Second Lieutenant Davies was shot by a sniper while observing for his battery in the Tigris area of Mesopotamia. He has no known grave, but his name is commemorated on the Basra Memorial.
General regret was expressed on all sides when the news was received of the death of Lieutenant A.H. Davies in Mesopotamia, and the flag on the Town Hall was half-masted. Mr. Davies practised his profession as a solicitor in Wagin for several years, and soon after the outbreak of the war he arranged his affairs and proceeded to England, where he was successful in obtaining a commission in the Artillery. He was sent to the front in Mesopotamia where he died of wounds on April 18.
LIEUTENANT A. H. Davies, who will be best remembered as the late partner of Mr. D. C. Scott, solicitor, with his office at Wagin, has succumbed to wounds received at the front. Mr. Davies was an estimable man, greatly esteemed by the people of Wagin, and news of his death has been received with unfeigned regret in all circles.
DAVIES.—Aldborough Henry Davies, 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery (late of Wagin, W.A.), died of wounds received in the Tigris line, Mesopotamia, on April 18, 1916. Aged 34 years.
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.