No. 230270, Major, Mostyn Llewellyn DAVIES [DSO]
Aged 33
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Mostyn Llewellyn DAVIES was born in St Maylebone, London in Q3-1910 (1A:441), the son of Llewellyn and Clara DAVIES (née HAAGENSEN).
1911 census...Aged 9 months, he was at 3 Ulster Terrace, Regents Park, Marylebone, London with his father Llewellyn Sidney DAVIES [33] a barrister born in Clapham and his mother Clara Line Andrea [34] born in Grimsby, and sister Ivona Jessie[3] born Marylebone. He married Brenda Margaret WOODBRIDGE in Lagos on 6th August 1942 In the 1939 register his parents and sister were at The Bull (Barton Mills?).Father, retired barrister [29-4-1877], was managing his estate at Herringswell, mother [17-5-1876] and sister Ivona [17-2-1908] (rep for West Suffolk Women's Land Army). |
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General List officers were usually Reservists and were specialists who had not been assigned to any particular regiment or corps.
The Special Operations Executive operation in pro Axis Bulgaria ( from 1941 included parts of Yugoslavia) was not set up until 1944 and suffered its first casualties at the end of March. Major Davies (ex SOE in Lagos, Nigeria and New York) and Major William Frank Thompson, (both Oxford University educated) were caught in a mill by a Bulgarian patrol at Novo Selo. Mostyn Davies and his wireless operator were killed (Mostyn dying of his wounds later in the day). Major Thompson escaped. Major Mostyn Davies was awarded the D.S.O. on the 13th May 1944. click here to find a more comprehensive account of their operations
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