Francis Gordon Davis (SN 3310), known as Frank, was born and lived at ‘North Lodge’ (the Gate House at the Ballarat Botanical Gardens). He attended the Wendouree State School and Ballarat Junior Technical School before becoming a trainee motor mechanic. He enlisted when he turned 18 and left Australia in May 1918 aboard the Osterley to serve as a mechanic in the Australian Flying Corps. He served out the final months of the war in England without ever crossing to the battlefields of France. He was killed on January 25th 1919 when he fell from an overloaded troop transport truck that skidded on an icy English road. He was 19 years of age and is buried in the Leighterton Churchyard Cemetery in England.

His brother Edward also served in the AIF and is honoured with a tree in the Avenue.