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22 December 2015 / Club News

Lest We Forget - Cecil R Davies

Lest We Forget

The former club player and Welsh international who died at Christmas during the Second World War:

Cecil Rhys Davies,  24th December 1941.

Cecil Rhys Davies was a Welsh international prop forward who played occasionally for the club in its early years. He was born in 1909 and, when at Cardiff High School, he won two Welsh Secondary Schools caps in 1926. He later joined the RAF and was at one time their heavyweight boxing champion. Cecil represented the RAF in the inter-services tournaments of 1933 and 1934 and also played for London Welsh, Bedford and Cardiff. In January 1934, he won his only cap for Wales in the 9-0 defeat by England at Cardiff Arms Park. By late 1941, he was a squadron leader serving with 224 Squadron in Coastal Command. On the night of 24/25th December 1941, he was pilot of a Hudson which was on patrol from St. Eval in Cornwall. His aircraft failed to return and all five of the crew were subsequently posted “presumed killed in action”. Cecil Rhys Davies is buried today in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s Bayeux War Cemetery in Normandy.

Gwyn Prescott

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