Cecil George Davy

Fitter - Service No. 168583 - Royal Air Force

Cecil George Davy, the son of Robert Daniel Davy and his wife Sarah Ann (Cooper), was born 3rd March 1901 in Swardeston, Norfolk. He was the second of five children, Robert (1897), Dorothy (1902), Harold (1905) and Rupert (1908). Robert Daniel and Sarah had married in 1896 in Bracon Ash, Norfolk, and settled in Swardeston, by high common, where Robert was a house painter by trade. Robert Daniel Davy was the 4th of the 13 children of Walter James Davy (1843-1904) and his wife Emily (Hubbard).

On 16th November 1927 Cecil married Gladys Victoria Oakley in Swardeston. Gladys was the daughter of David Oakley and his wife Sabina (Buck) from Wood Lane, Swardeston.

Cecil and Gladys settled in Hingham where they had a son Roger (1931). Cecil Davy died, in Hingham, in 1984 at the age of 83 while his widow, Gladys, lived to be 95, dying in 1996.

Cecil joined the Royal Air Force, which had only been formed on 1st April, on 10th May 1918, just 2 months after his 17th birthday, as an aero engineering fitter. After training, Cecil joined the British Expeditionary Force in France on 11th October 1918 and was posted to No.46 Squadron two days later. He remained in France until 9th July 1919 when he returned to England and was transferred to the RAF Reserve on 10th August 1919.

His RAF records survive and we know he was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.

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