NAVAL AIR STATIONS
COMMANDER APPOINTED DISTINGUISHED OFFICER (Received May 23, 11.55 p.m.) LONDON. May 23 Rear-Admiral Richard Davies, V.0., D.5.0., A.F.0., who was a brilliant figure in the Dardanelles and Thrace operations in the Great War, has been appointed to command the naval air stations. Rear-Admiral Davies, then a commander, was in charge of the Air Section of the Naval Staff from 1920 to 1924; served in H.M.S. Royal Sovereign in the Atlantic Fleet, from 1924 to 1926, when he was promoted captain and reappointed to the Naval Aijr Section at the Admiralty, and again went to sea in 1928 as flagcaptain and chief staff officer to the rear-admiral commanding' the First Cruiser Squadron. From 1931 to 1933 he was liaison officer for the Fleet Air Artn at the Air Ministry, and then commanded H.M.S. Cornwall until 1935. The following year ho was appointed to command of the Royal Naval Barracks.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23354, 24 May 1939, Page 14
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