Philip Dudley DAVIES

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DAVIES, Philip Dudley

Service Number:	Q210424
Enlisted:	26 November 1943
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Nilma, Victoria,Australia, 11 November 1904
Home Town:	Mundubbera, North Burnett, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Bank Manager
Died:	Maroochydore, Queensland, Australia, 31 October 1988, aged 83 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Buderim Lawn Cemetery - Crematorium & Memorial Gardens
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World War 2 Service

26 Nov 1943:	Involvement Private, Q210424, Page missing from Enlistment Register
26 Nov 1943:	Enlisted
26 Nov 1943:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q210424
11 Sep 1944:	Discharged
11 Sep 1944:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q210424

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Philip Dudley Davies (Service No:Q210424) served in the ACMF with 11th Battalion (QLD) VDC from 26 November 1943 to 11 September 1944.

Philip was born in Nilma via Warragul, Victoria in 1904, second of four children of Edgar Vincent Davies (b1884 in Ballarat, Victoria) and Elizabeth Rodda (b1884 in Daylesford, Victoria). Edgar (a Butcher in Bloomfield, Flinders, Victoria) and Elizabeth married in 1904 and settled in Tatura where Edgar was a Stock and Station Agent. In the mid 1920s Edgar and Elizabeth moved to Melbourne, where Edgar worked as a Real Estate Agent. By the mid 1930s they were living at Avenal in Echuca where Edgar was Manager of the Chateau Tahbilk Vineyard. Edgar and Elizabeth returned to Melbourne in the 1940s, and Edgar worked as a Salesman.

Philip worked as a Bank Clerk in Birregurra Victoria until 1934, when he moved to Maroochydore, QLD and was a Bank Clerk with the Commercial Bank of Australia when he married Myfanny Elizabeth Martha Stephens (b1906 in Drouin, Victoria) - Myfanny worked in Melbourne as a Typist. Philip and Myfanny settled in QLD, where Philip was a Bank Manager in Mundubbera and Brisbane. In the mid 1940s, Philip and Myfanny moved to Gladstone, where they were Newsagents before retiring to Maroochydore, QLD. Myfanny died in 1988 and Philip in 1998.

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