Ronald Edward DAVIES

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DAVIES, Ronald Edward

Service Number:	38530
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	1st Field Squadron, RAE
Born:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia , 18 December 1944
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Soldier
Died:	Killed in Action, South Vietnam, 28 May 1969, aged 24 years
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Area: Banksia Wall / panel: P Side: Row: Niche number: 126
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Canberra 1 Field Squadron Royal Australian Engineers Vietnam Roll of Honour, Canberra 1st Field Squadron Vietnam Honour Roll, Grafton Clarence Valley Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Kallangur Vietnam Veterans' Place, Port Pirie Vietnam Veterans Honour Wall, Seymour Vietnam Veterans Commemorative Walk Roll of Honour

Vietnam War Service

19 Dec 1968:	Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Sapper, 38530, 1st Field Squadron, RAE
19 Dec 1968:	Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, 38530

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Biography

Birth: Dec. 18, 1944
Melbourne
Victoria, Australia
Death: May 28, 1969, Vietnam

38530 Sapper. Ronald Edward Davies, 24.
1st Field Squadron Royal Australian Corps of Engineers (RAE) He was working with 9RAR when he was killed on 28th May 1969 in Phuoc Tuy. According to a friend who knew him in Vietnam Davies who was often attached to US and South Vietnamese Units, had become convinced that he was going to be killed.

Note: Cremation interred in Wall Niche

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