[1] Davis joined the staff at Kent County Cricket Club in 1938, having been successful in a trial the previous year.
[2] During World War II Davis served in the Royal Air Force (RAF), reaching the rank of Flight Lieutenant.
After VE Day he played as part of a Desert Air Force cricket team in a series of matches in England, scoring a century against a side from RAF Bomber Command at Trent Bridge.
[2] Davis opted to remain in the RAF after the war, but returned to Kent whilst on leave in 1946, making his first-class cricket debut for the side in May 1946 in a County Championship match against Derbyshire at Queen's Park, Chesterfield.
[3] Davis' last first-class match was for Kent against Somerset in August 1946 at the St Lawrence Ground in Canterbury.