DAVIES, Ronald Edward
Service Number: | 38530 |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Sapper |
Last Unit: | 1st Field Squadron, RAE |
Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia , 18 December 1944 |
Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Soldier |
Died: | Killed in Action, South Vietnam, 28 May 1969, aged 24 years |
Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Area: Banksia Wall / panel: P Side: Row: Niche number: 126 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Canberra 1 Field Squadron Royal Australian Engineers Vietnam Roll of Honour, Canberra 1st Field Squadron Vietnam Honour Roll, Grafton Clarence Valley Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Kallangur Vietnam Veterans' Place, Port Pirie Vietnam Veterans Honour Wall, Seymour Vietnam Veterans Commemorative Walk Roll of Honour |
Vietnam War Service
19 Dec 1968: | Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Sapper, 38530, 1st Field Squadron, RAE | |
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19 Dec 1968: | Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, 38530 |
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Birth: Dec. 18, 1944
Melbourne
Victoria, Australia
Death: May 28, 1969, Vietnam
38530 Sapper. Ronald Edward Davies, 24.
1st Field Squadron Royal Australian Corps of Engineers (RAE) He was working with 9RAR when he was killed on 28th May 1969 in Phuoc Tuy. According to a friend who knew him in Vietnam Davies who was often attached to US and South Vietnamese Units, had become convinced that he was going to be killed.
Note: Cremation interred in Wall Niche
Information from Find a Grave Memorial