Ralph DAVEY

DAVEY, Ralph

Service Number: VX42155
Enlisted: 4 July 1940
Last Rank: Lance Bombardier
Last Unit: 2nd/11th Field Regiment
Born: Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 19 May 1916
Home Town: Heidelberg, Banyule, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Dairyman
Died: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 14 May 2005, aged 88 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
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World War 2 Service

4 Jul 1940: Enlisted Lance Bombardier, VX42155, 2nd/11th Field Regiment
4 Jul 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Bombardier, VX42155, 2nd/11th Field Regiment
22 Nov 1945: Discharged Lance Bombardier, VX42155, 2nd/11th Field Regiment
22 Nov 1945: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Bombardier, VX42155, 2nd/11th Field Regiment
Date unknown: Involvement Lance Bombardier, VX42155, 2nd/11th Field Regiment

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Ralph was the eldest of two children of William Isaac Davey (born 1872 in White Hills, Victoria) and first wife Margaret Ann Findlay (born 1871 in Learmonth, Ballarat, Victoria). William and Margaret married in 1892 in Melbourne, Victoria and lived in Bendigo where William was a Salesman. Margaret died in 1912 and William remarried twice, having an further three children.

Ralph was living at Heidelberg in Victoria and working as a Dairyman when he enlisted in the Australian Army  in July 1940. He served with 2/11 Field Regiment (which was deployed to the Middle East in 1941 and to Bougainville in New Guinea in 1944/1945). Ralph was a Lance Bombardier when he was Discharged in November 1945. Brothers-in-Law Francis (Private, Service No:Q108445) and Denis Charles (Private, Service No:Q148286) Tite and Walter Cleveland Jarrett (Private, Service Nos:NX11747/QX32790) also served in WWII.

In December 1945 Ralph was in Ipswich, QLD when he married Joan Maureen Tite (born 1922 in Ipswich, QLD). Maureen returned to Heidelberg, Victoria with Ralph where he was a Dairy Farmer. Ralph and Maureen moved to Eltham in Heidelberg to retire. Ralph died in 2005 and Maureen in 2019.

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