Hylton Davies

Hylton George Leslie "Heck" Davies (1915-1945) was an Australian AIF officer who fell in WWII during the Battle of Balikpapan.

He had been a top-grade rugby league footballer who played for Newtown in the NSWRFL in the 1930s.

Davies enlisted in the AIF in late 1939 and didn't play rugby league again.

[3] He attained the rank of captain in the Australian Army and he served in Great Britain, Syria, The Middle East, Kokoda Track, Lae and Borneo.

[5] Davies married Lurline Hook, diving gold medallist at the 1938 Empire Games.