Allegiance United Kingdom Died 1988 Years of service 1938–1972 Battles and wars World War II | Battles/wars Second World War Name Anthony Davis | |
Born 14 August 1918
Surrey, England ( 1918-08-14 ) Awards Distinguished Service Order, Distinguished Flying Cross Service/branch Royal Engineers, Royal Air Force Similar People James Lennox Dawson, Reg Varney, Thomas Frank Durrant, James Dundas, Charles Warren | ||
Commands held No. 16 Squadron RAF | ||
Air Commodore Anthony Norman Davis DSO DFC (14 August 1918 – 1988) was a British Royal Air Force officer who served as a pilot during the Second World War.
Born in the Farnham area of Surrey, Davis was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel H. J. N Davis. He graduated from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich as a second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, In 1940, he transferred to the Royal Air Force as a pilot.
When he announced his engagement to Dominique Gauquié in 1950 he was the air attache in Budapest. In 1963, he was promoted air commodore as the air attache in Moscow.
He appeared on British television in the 1970s as the Ministry of Defence spokesman on Unidentified Flying Objects.
His grandson is the Franco-British actor Edward Akrout.
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