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| Full name | Hylton George Leslie Davies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 28 December 1915 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 16 July 1945 (aged 29) Balikpapan, Borneo, Dutch East Indies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hylton George Leslie "Heck" Davies (1915-1945) was an Australian AIF officer who fell in WWII during the Battle of Balikpapan. He had been a top-grade rugby league footballer who played for Newtown in the NSWRFL in the 1930s.
Davies played four seasons of first grade for Newtown [2] between 1936 and 1939 before his war service.
Davies enlisted in the AIF in late 1939 and didn't play rugby league again. [3] He attained the rank of captain in the Australian Army and he served in Great Britain, Syria, The Middle East, Kokoda Track, Lae and Borneo. [4]
Hylton Davies was killed during the Battle of Balikpapan in 1945 when a Japanese mortar shell hit Davies' battalion's headquarters. [5]
Davies married Lurline Hook, diving gold medallist at the 1938 Empire Games. She and their son, Ian, survived him. [4]
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