Career
Davies left school to join the Queen"s Westminsters. From there, he transferred into the Royal Flying Corps on 4 November 1917. He qualified as a pilot at the Grahame-White School on their proprietary airplanes, receiving his pilot"s certificate on 11 May 1918.
He was assigned to 29 Squadron on 1 September 1918.
The first of the nine enemy planes and one observation balloon that he destroyed fell on the 16th, and the last on 10 November, the day before the Armistice. Davies died in a flying accident while serving in the Army of Occupation in Germany.
He tried a high-speed roll over Bickendorf Airfield. His Southeast.5a shed its wings and he fell to his death.
His Belgian Croix de guerre followed on 15 July 1919.
On 7 October, with three other machines, he attacked seven Fokkers. Four of these were destroyed.