Reginald Elliott Davies

Mr Reginald Elliott Davies was born in 1943. He received formal education in the New South Wales towns of Belmont and Wauchope and worked as a timber worker from 1959 to 1963.

In 1963 he enlisted in the Army, seeing active service with the Australian Special Air Service Regiment (2 Squadron) in Borneo, Vietnam and Malaysia.

He moved to Western Australia in 1965, and married Kaye Dorothy Armstrong in 1967. They had three sons: Jamie Willis, Peter Elliott, and Adam Justin. Upon his retirement from the Royal Air Force in 1985, Mr Davies served as a councillor on Stirling City Council from 1986 to 1989 and was active in the Liberal Party as president of the Balga branch from 1986 to 1988.

He was vice-president of the Stirling Division and was the regional co-ordinator for North Metropolitan Province from 1987 to 1989. He also directed the campaigns for the federal seats of Cowan in 1987 and Moore in 1990. At the 1989 state election he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council for North Metropolitan. He resigned from the Liberal Party in 1991 and was re-elected as an independent at the 1993 election.