Banbury area army major swaps house builder day job for London Ambulance Service volunteer role

Military Liaison Officer, James Davis, from Hook Norton, has served in the Army for 10 years and is volunteering at London Ambulance Service NHS Trust HQ to offer operational expertise while furloughed from his current role.

James Davis, land manager at Vistry Group – which includes Vistry Partnerships, Bovis Homes and Linden Homes – is based at LAS headquarters where he is coordinating military support to help the Trust.

James attends daily LAS progress meetings and reports to the army’s London District HQ from the NHS, London Resilience Forum and Nightingale Hospital.

James said: “I am grateful for the opportunity to help during this extraordinary time. My role is to enable support from the military to the London Ambulance Service where appropriate, which can vary day- to-day with logistics.

“I remain ready, responsive and resilient and feel privileged to work alongside hardworking, lifesaving professionals.”

James works for the Vistry Partnerships Thames Valley region, which he joined last month after transferring from Linden Homes. His last role in the army was in the Basing team, which provides infrastructure for army units. He has been a reservist since 2018.

James is married to Camilla and has two children, Percy, 4 and Isabelle, 2, plus four-year-old cocker spaniel, Floyd.

Vistry Group is actively encouraging staff who are not at work to volunteer, and helping to organise collections of critical medical kit to hospitals in different parts of the country.

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