Rear Admiral Davyd Rhys Thomas, AO, CSC (born 2 May 1956) is a retired senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy.
Davyd Rhys Thomas was born on 2 May 1956 in Newcastle, New South Wales,[1] and joined the Royal Australian Navy College from that city in 1974.
Thomas was then posted as executive officer of HMAS Adelaide, and participated in the first RAN contingent to the Persian Gulf in 1990, as part of Operation Desert Shield; he was promoted to commander in December 1990.
In the Australia Day Honour's List of 1997, Thomas was awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross[2] and was promoted to captain in July of the same year.
As the commanding officer of Newcastle during Operation Slipper in the Persian Gulf, Thomas conducted maritime interdiction in support of coalition forces enforcing United Nations sanctions against Iraq.