The Soldier's Details

Surname:
Davis
First Name:
Harold Allan
Nick Name:
Allan
Rank:
Private
Regimental #:
WX16420
Company:
'A' Company
Enlisted:
10.09.1941
DOB:
14.04.1917
Place of Birth:
Kulyalling, Western Australia
Father's Name:
Edward Benjamin Davis
Mothers's Name:
Annie Rebecca Davis (nee Parker)
Religion:
Baptist
Pre-war Occupation:
Farmhand
Memorial:
Epitah, Singapore Memorial, Column 136, Age 24.
Cause of Death:
Died of Wounds. Wounded in action at Buona Vista on 15/2/1942. Admitted to 2/9th Australian Field Ambulance with a gunshot wound to right shoulder.
Place of Death:
St Andrews Cathedral, Singapore
Date of Death:
15.02.1942
Buried:
South-east corner of St Andrew’s Cathedral grounds on 16.2.1942.

General Description

Allan Davis enlisted AIF 10 Sept 1941. He later joined 2/4th’s ‘A’ Company HQ with a large number of reinforcements.
Wounded in action at Buona Vista on 15.2.1942. Admitted to the 2/9th Australian Field Ambulance with a gunshot wound to right shoulder.  He was 24 years old when he died.

 

 

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Davis Harold Allan

 

 

You will find Allan’s name recorded on the Brookton WW2 Memorial.  
Harold Allan Davis was known as Allan.  He was the eldest of three sons and three daughters born to Edward Benjamin Davis and Annie Rebecca Parker who married at Pingelly, 1914.
The Davis family farmed at Kulyalling.
Edward Davis died at Pingelly in 1957 and Annie Davis died in 1980.
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