Although preserved with Arnold Davis family materials, the long narrative is best treated as Pat Davis’s own statement, recorded or prepared through Arnold for a pension/application purpose and submitted after Pat’s death. Use it for Pat’s account of his service and captivity, with the usual caution for retrospective statements and benefits-file context.
Source file
Pat Davis War-Service Statement for Pension Application
First-person war-service and prisoner-of-war statement by Charles Gordon Goodwin "Pat" Davis, recorded or prepared through Arnold Campbell Davis for a pension application connected to Pat's terminal illness.
People in this story
- Charles Gordon Goodwin Davis
- Arnold Campbell Davis
- Doreen Healy Davis
Source Citation
Charles Gordon Goodwin "Pat" Davis, first-person war-service and prisoner-of-war statement prepared for pension application connected to his terminal illness, recorded or prepared through Arnold Campbell Davis and submitted after Pat Davis's death, 1969; copy shared with the researcher by Dena Davis from the Arnold Davis family papers; privately held by Davis Simpson.