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Arthur John Davies

Royal Navy officer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ110911449 ↗
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Admiral Sir Arthur John Davies, KBE, CB (26 September 1877 – 13 December 1954) was a Royal Navy officer who served in both world wars.

Despite his age, Davies volunteered for service during the Second World War and served as a convoy commodore in the Royal Naval Reserve from 1940 to 1944, for which he was mentioned in despatches and knighted KBE in 1943.

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This entry incorporates text from “Arthur John Davies” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.