 During the Second World War, he served in the Army Officers' Emergency Reserve and in the Royal Welch Fusiliers.He was Recorder of Merthyr Tydfil from 1942 to 1944, of Swansea from 1944 to 1953 and of Cardiff from 1953 to 1958.Between 1953 and 1964, Davies was chairman of the Denbighshire Quarter Sessions.