DAVIES, Lionel Arthur Stanley
| Service Numbers: | 1158, 2531 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 April 1915, 'Failed to embark' |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 5th Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Nathalia, Victoria, Australia, 1894 |
| Home Town: | Nathalia, Moira Shire, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Picola State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Electrician |
| Died: | Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia, 13 March 1967, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Woronora Memorial Park, Sutherland, New South Wales NSW BDM Registration No: 13637/1967 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Apr 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1158, 6th Light Horse Regiment, 'Failed to embark' | |
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| 9 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2531, 29th Infantry Battalion | |
| 25 Sep 1916: | Embarked Private, 2531, 58th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Shropshire embarkation_ship_number: A9 public_note: '' | |
| 15 Nov 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Sergeant, 2531, 5th Machine Gun Battalion, embarked England for Melbourne on board HT Ypiranga | |
| 18 Feb 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 2531, 5th Machine Gun Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Lionel Arthur Stanley Davies (Service Nos:1158/2531) initially enlisted in the AIF in Sydney on 12 April 1915 with 8/6th Light Horse Regiment and 'failed to embark - breaking ship' (NAA). Private Davies re-enlisted in the AIF in Victoria on 9 February 1916 with 19 Depot Battalion Geelong and then 29th Infantry Battalion. On 25 September 1916, Private Davies was attached to 58th Infantry Battalion when he embarked with his Unit from Melbourne for Plymouth on board HMAT A9 Shropshire. Private Davies served on the Western Front, and was hospitalised in England suffering from Trench Fever. On 1 May 1918 Sergeant Davies transferred to 5th Machine Gun Battalion, and embarked from England for Melbourne on 15 November 1919 on board HT Ypiranga. Sergeant Davies was attached to 5th Machine Gun Battalion at Discharge on 18 February 1920.
Lionel was born in Nathalia, Victoria in 1894, eldest of three 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, where they settled and raised their family and Arthur was an Estate Agent and Commercial Traveller. Following Catherine's death in 1905, Arthur moved to Sydney where he remarried (in total, another four marriages) - he served in the Militia, and in the AIF (Home Service; Service No:101) from 4 November 1916 - 1 January 1919 as a Private and Staff Sergeant attached to Australian Army Pay Corps - Arthur gave his occupation as Clerk at enlistment. Arthur worked as a Commercial Traveller/Salesman.
Lionel worked as a Draper's Assistant and Canvasser in Sydney, and in 1916 when he enlisted in the AIF in Victoria, gave his occupation as Electrician. In 1917 in Essex, England Lionel married his first wife Margaret Morey Croydon (b1895 in Surrey, England). Following his Discharge from the Army, Margaret travelled to Melbourne in 1920, arriving on board the Bremen. Lionel and Margaret settled in Sydney, where they raised their family and Lionel worked as a Labourer. Margaret returned to England with the two children in 1922 on board the Esperance Bay, and filed for Divorce in 1932. Lionel moved to Brisbane, where he worked as a Salesman, returning to Sydney in the 1930s. Lionel worked in Sydney as a Salesman and Engineer, and in 1942 remarried to Dorothy Lydia Moles. Lionel and Dorothy settled in Sydney, where Lionel worked as an Engineer and Organiser before retiring to Conjula in Shoalhaven in the late 1950s. Lionel died in 1967.
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