Neville Ambrose DAVIES

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DAVIES, Neville Ambrose

Service Number:	1485
Enlisted:	3 January 1916, MG section
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	35th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Concord, New South Wales, Australia, 3 April 1893
Home Town:	Concord, Canada Bay, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Electrical mechanic
Died:	New Lambton, New South Wales, Australia, 9 October 1953, aged 60 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW BAPTIST-E SE. 28.
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World War 1 Service

3 Jan 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 1485, 35th Infantry Battalion, MG section
1 May 1916:	Embarked Private, 1485, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney
1 May 1916:	Involvement Private, 1485, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: ''
12 Jul 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 35th Infantry Battalion
27 Sep 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 35th Infantry Battalion
4 Apr 1918:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 35th Infantry Battalion
12 Aug 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 35th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

Served and suffered during The Great War, now resting at Sandgate Cemetery.

67 years ago today, on the Monday afternoon of the 11th October 1954, Lieutenant Neville Ambrose Davies, 35th Battalion (Machine Gun Section, Reg No-1485), electrical mechanic from 80 Henry Street, Tighes Hill, New South Wales and 14 Carrington Parade, New Lambton, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 61. BAPTIST-E SE. 28.

Born at Concord, New South Wales on the 3rd April 1893 to Daniel and Jane Davies; husband of Esma Muriel Davies nee Mathews (married 1924, Wickham, N.S.W., died 1990, age 84, 36 years a widow, sleeping at BAPTIST-GSE. 17.), Neville enlisted January 1916 at Newcastle, N.S.W.

Admitted to hospital 8.12.1916 (pleurisy), 15.12.1916 (myalgia), 6.3.1917 (gastro enteritis), 12.1.1918 (pyrexia of unknown origin), Neville returned home May 1919, being discharged on the 12th August 1919.

Mr. Davies’s name has been inscribed on the Tighes Hill Public School Honor Roll (photo, unveiled on the 24th May 1918, 133 names originally inscribed, 144 names now inscribed, 20 Fallen), Wickham Municipal District Roll of Honour Board (1), Sulphide Corporation Pty Ltd Cockle Creek Works Roll of Honour and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.

There is no indication on Neville’s headstone plaque of his service with the 1st A.I.F., so I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label in remembrance of his sacrifice for God, King & Country.

Lest We Forget.

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