Military History

Embarked Fremantle per HMAT ‘Surada’ A 52 for Plymouth. 22.9.1916 .
Roll Rank Private.
Roll Unit 15th Reinf. 28th Bn. To France 22.12.1916.
Davies disembarked with the 51st Bn. 28th Reinf. in Plymouth England. He marched into the  the 7th Training Bn. Camp  for a period of one month's training before embarking at Folkstone with the 15th training Bn. per 'Princess Clementine' for France 21.12.1916. Davies marched into the 2nd Australian Division Base Depot at Etaples 2.12.1916 and was taken on strength with the 28th Bn. 18.1.1917.  No records exist to confirm which battles Davies fought in, however, the 28th Bn. played a supporting role at the Second Battle of Bullecourt, Menin Road and Broodseinde Ridge. In 1918 the Bn. fought to turn back the German Spring Offensive.  Davies was  was promoted from Private to L/Corporal 7.1.1918. He was awarded a Military Medal 12.7.1918 for bravery in the field at Morlancourt near Albert, France. He fought with his Bn. to break through the Beaurevoir Line in October 1918. Davies was promoted to Cpl. in France 27.9.1918 then to Temp. Sgt., he then reverted to Cpl. and  appointed L/Sgt in 1919.
Embarked for Australia per ‘Windhuk’.
Returned/Disembarked to Australia 7.5.1919.
Discharged 20.10.1919.
Final Rank Lance Sergeant 28th Bn.
Medical Condition NK.
Awards and Medals Military Medal , British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Military Medal citation 12.7.1918.
‘During the operation at Morlancourt, near Albert on the night of the 10th/11th June 1918. This NCO was a member of a carrying party. After having made 2 trips under heavy shell fire, to the captured objective - the second trip being of 1 mile, he volunteered for a bombing attack with another Company, and did excellent work in assisting repulse a German bombing attack. (He then carried a wounded Sgt back to the RAP, a distance of about 1 mile’.
(London Gazette 21.10.1918 in NAA B2455 Davies.)
Photos Lance Sergeant Reginald Arthur Davie with his MM.1919. Photographer Dease Studios Barrack St. Perth,WA. Photograph source SLWA 108217PD
           HMAT 'Surada'. Photographer unknown. SLNSW image a639566
              Dugout in collapsed road, Morlancourt 1918. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM E04702
              Remains of a Railway Station at Albert 1917. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM H02112
              German fortified town of Beaurevoir 1918. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM E03609

Information Source
AWM E04702. Dugout in collapsed road, Morlancourt 1918. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM H02112. Remains of the Railway Station at Albert 1917. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM E03609. German fortified town of Beaurevoir 1918. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
Guildford War Memorial
NAA: B2455, Davies R A
AWM Embarkation Roll- Reginald Arthur Davies
AWM Awards and Honours – Reginald Arthur Davies
SLNSW image a639566. HMAT 'Surada'. Photographer unknown, photograph source State Library of New South Wales
SLWA 108217PD. Lance Sergeant Reginald Arthur Davies with his MM. 1919. Photographer Dease Studios Barrack St. Perth, WA. Photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the State Library of Western Australia
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