Lieutenant-Colonel William Thomas Frederick Davies
CMG DSO (13 August 1860 – 24 June 1947) was a South African
surgeon
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, army officer and politician.
Davies trained at
Guy's Hospital in
London. In the
South African War
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he served as Surgeon-
Major
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with the
Imperial Light Horse
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and was awarded the
Distinguished Service Order (DSO). From 1914 to 1915, he commanded the 2nd Imperial Light Horse in
German South-West Africa, where he was wounded. From 1915 to 1917, he was a member of the
South African House of Assembly, for which he was appointed
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
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(CMG) in the 1920 New Year Honours.
In 1917, he joined the
Royal Army Medical Corps
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and remained with the corps until 1919, serving as Surgeon Specialist at the General Military Hospital,
Colchester. Returning home, he became President of the
South African Medical Council.
Footnotes
References
*Obituary, ''
The Times'', 4 July 1947
1860 births
1947 deaths
South African surgeons
South African Army officers
South African people of Welsh descent
South African military personnel of World War I
British Army personnel of World War I
Royal Army Medical Corps officers
Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
Imperial Light Horse officers
British military personnel of the Second Boer War
Members of the House of Assembly (South Africa)
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