A.F.M. London Gazette 2.1.1939. Recommendation states 'This Corporal Air Gunner has been largely responsible for the high efficiency maintained by his Flight. He is an exceptionally good Bomb-Aimer and has proved himself to be a very good Navigator. He has twice been employed as an Air Gunner on Singapore Reinforcement Flights. He has completed 1255 hours of excellent and most conscientious flying as an Air Gunner. In addition this Airman took a prominent part in blockage operations and spent long hours of work in the air over inhospitable country where a forced landing would have had disastrous results, and under hostile rifle fire. As Leading Air Gunner in his Flight, he has also been largely responsible for the accuracy of attacks during punitive bombing'.

Mention in Despatches London Gazette 18.2.1938 and 17.10.1939.

Pilot Officer David Henry Davis, A.F.M., entered the Royal Air Force in 1924, trained as an Air Gunner and was subsequently posted to No. 60 (Bomber) Squadron at Kohat, India. Over a four year period he participated in numerous operations over the North West Frontier, was twice Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the A.F.M. Returning to England in the late 1930s, he was commissioned as a Pilot Officer in May 1940 and posted to No. 59 Squadron, which unit was actively engaged in Blenheims. Subsequently participating in a number of photographic and bombing sorties prior to the fall of France, Davis was unsuccessfully recommended for a Decoration. The Squadron was transferred to Coastal Command in July and continued to operate against enemy-held ports, one such sortie to Cherbourg on the first day of August 1940 resulting in the loss of Davis and his Blenheim crew.