Following the Partition of India, he briefly served as Deputy Chief of the General Staff of Pakistan before returning to the United Kingdom to work as a civil servant.
It was for 'distinguished service in the Field with the British Army of the Black Sea' that he was awarded the Military Cross as a captain with the 2/39th Garhwal Rifles.
[citation needed] Davies was then appointed to command the newly created 25th Indian Infantry Division, forming in Bangalore to defend southern India against invasion.
[6] Returning to the United Kingdom, Davies joined the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, where he was assistant director of the investigation division.
He remained at the Ministry for fourteen years, before moving to the Historical Section of the Cabinet Office, where he worked as a historian on the Official Histories of the Second World War.