Six photographs of Neil Davis from Tim Bowden

Title: Six photographs of Neil Davis from Tim Bowden
Description: c1937: The young Neil 'Tiny' Davis, barefoot in a rare snow fall at Nala, the Davis farm near Sorell. (l-r) Neil, his eldest brother Jim (Geoffrey), and Darrel. [Tim Bowden, PWC2 p71]; 1944: Neil Davis at Sorell School; 1948: Neil Davis schoolboy footballer. The Australian War Memorial collection notes the original caption: "Schoolboys' interstate (Australian Rules) football carnival, Brisbane – July 1948. Neil Davis was no. 1 ruckman for Tasmania. This schoolboys side was the first Tasmanian representative team to beat the mighty Victorians – that means any representative team side (the first senior team to beat Victoria was in 1961 – maybe still the only other time). Tasmania beat all other state sides in 1948 except West Australia, who beat them in the final. Photo shows Davis flying the ball against New South Wales."; 1966: Tim Bowden and his then girlfriend Rosalind Geddes with Neil Davis (right) in Singapore 1966; c1974: Black & white portrait of Neil Davis in Phnom Penh, Cambodia 1974 from the Australian War Memorial collection AWM2020.493.2.42; 1987: Neil Davis with camera on the cover of One Crowded Hour – original image c1950; 2016: Email Tim sent Feb 2016 with the photos for PWC2.
"He lived the first seven years of his life at Nala, when the family moved to the house Belle Vue in Sorell in 1941. He attended the Sorell State school for five years, from 1941 to 1946. There is a photo of him playing as No. 1 ruckman in the schoolboy competition in Brisbane in 1948 when he was 14. He even played in the tough local football competitions as well at this tender age. He was a pupil at the Hobart High School during 1947 and 1948. He managed to leave school at the age of 14 to start work at the Tasmanian Government Film Unit in Hobart as an office boy when he also left Sorell and took up lodgings in Bellerive in 1948. Not sure about cricket, but he certainly played football for Sorell as a 14-year-old schoolboy."
Identifier: TB2016
Photographer: Various
Contributor: Tim Bowden AM
Relation: DAVIS, Neil Brian 1934–1985; BOWDEN, Tim AM 1937–2024
Rights: Originals out of copyright
Digital images supplied by Tim Bowden in Feb 2016 for PWC2
Start Date: 1938
End Date: 2016

Item sets: Other photographs

Media: Barefoot in the Snow.jpeg; Neil at Sorell School c1944 [timbowden.com.au]; Neil Davis – schoolboy footballer, Tasmanian side in Brisbane, July 1948; Tim Bowden and his girlfriend Rosalind Geddes with Neil Davis in Singapore 1966.jpeg; Neil Davis c1974 AWM4099645.JPG; Original cover of One Crowded Hour by Tim Bowden (1987) featuring young Neil Davis with camera

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BOWDEN, Tim AM 1937–2024
DAVIS, Neil Brian 1934–1985