Ray requested duty in the Philippine Islands and unfortunately his request was granted.

Raymon Woodrow Davis was born in 1913 in Oklahoma. Nothing has surfaced as to his family; however, he had at least one brother, Lewis, who lived in Watsonville. Raymon Davis attended Watsonville Union High School for two years before dropping out of school. Prior to World War II, he worked as a cook in the Pajaro Valley.

On January 14, 1941, Davis enlisted in the regular US Army at Fort MacArthur in San Pedro, California, and was assigned to the coastal artillery. In March, Private Davis was sent to the Philippine Islands and upon arrival was assigned as a cook with the 808th MP detachment at Port Ava in Manila.

Following the Japanese invasion of the Islands in December 1941, Raymon made his way to Corregidor and fought in the defense of that fortress during the Japanese siege. When Corregidor fell on May 6, 1942, Davis was held as a prisoner of war at an unidentified Japanese prison camp in the Philippines, where he died on August 27, 1942.

He was initially buried near the site of his death; however, his remains were later recovered and reburied in the Manila American Cemetery.

(NARA2; ABMC; WRP June 30, 1943 1:8)