Harold Naunton Davies
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[BEM name="Supplement to the London Gazette 1 January 1976 - page 22">] (born 17 November 1903 - died 12 July 2009)
was an
Australian civil engineer
A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing ...
.
Davies was educated at
Ashfield Boys High School
Ashfield Boys High School is a government-funded comprehensive single-sex secondary school for boys, located on Liverpool Road, in Ashfield, an inner western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Established in 1962, the school e ...
and at
The University of Sydney, where he was awarded
Bachelor of Engineering degree.
Davies was an assistant to
John Bradfield in the design and construction of the
Sydney Harbour Bridge.
During
World War II, Davies designed "build by numbers" airfield buildings and accommodation for soldiers. They could be constructed by the servicemen themselves, instead of specialists.
References
1903 births
2009 deaths
Australian civil engineers
People educated at Ashfield Boys High School
University of Sydney alumni
Australian recipients of the British Empire Medal
Engineers from Sydney
Australian centenarians
Men centenarians
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