Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookd with the Bechuanaland Expedition, 1884-85; while of his great-uncles, Lieut.-Gen. Sir H. F. Williams, K.C.B., 60th Rifles, served through the Mutiny and Lieut.-Col. the Hon. H. R. Handcock, 97th Regt., was killed at the storming of the Redan in the Crimean war; and his great-great-uncle, Admiral Sir William Pierson, K.C.B., was wounded as a Midshipman in the Belleisle at Trafalgar. [Illustration: =Edward Charles Daun.=] =DAVEY, ARTHUR JOHN=, Private, No. 11483, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of Richard Soper Davey, of Broadway, Woodbury, Exeter, by his wife, Emily, dau. of Samuel Litton; _b._ Woodbury, co. Devon, 23 May, 1897; educ. Woodbury Council School; enlisted 31 Aug. 1914; went to France, 11 Dec., and was killed in action at Givenchy, 22 Dec. 1914; _unm._ =DAVEY, WILLIAM ALFRED GEORGE=, Rifleman, No. 2080, 1/18th Battn. (London Irish) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of James Best Davey, Sergt. 15th Middlesex Regt., by his wife, Sarah Elizabeth (42, Pretoria Avenue, Walthamstow), dau. of William Thomas Warner; _b._ Willesden, 18 May, 1894; was a student at the International Correspondence Schools, Kingsway, and had been employed for many years on the clerical staff of the Stores Department of the London County Council. After the outbreak of war he joined the London Irish on 31 Aug. 1914; went to the Front, 9 March, 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; _unm._ He was in the first line of German trenches binding up wounds sustained by a comrade, when he must have been observed by a German sniper, for, as he was advancing towards the second line of trenches, he was shot in the head by a rifle bullet. Lieut. G. M. Slattery wrote: "The Capt. of your son's company was struck by a shell, and your son was seen at once to make for him. On his way he was struck in the head and killed. He was a good lad and liked by everybody, and the action which led to his death was characteristic of him. He never seemed to trouble about himself, but was always the first to help others." He was buried in a village just outside Loos. [Illustration: =William Alfred G. Davey.=] =DAVID, CHARLIE=, Stoker, 1st Class, 311578, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =DAVID, JAMES STANLEY=, L.-Corpl., No. 30737, 1st Battn. Welsh Regt., _s._ of Walter David, of Uplands, Swansea; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, being buried in a trench on the night of 3 Aug. 1915, aged 23; _unm._ =DAVIDSON, ALEXANDER BISSETT=, Private, No. 16166, 2nd Battn. (Queen's Own) Cameron Highlanders, _s._ of James Brown Davidson, of 15, High Street, Portobello, near Edinburgh, an employee on the N.B. Ry., by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Alexander Bissett; _b._ Portobello, 12 Jan. 1891; educ. Tower Bank Public School there; enlisted 7 Dec. 1914; and was killed in action at the Battle of Hill 60, 29 April, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =Alexander B. Davidson.=] =DAVIDSON, ALEXANDER MURRAY STUART=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6689), 185747, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =DAVIDSON, DUNCAN HAMLYN=, Capt., 1st Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, eldest _s._ of Duncan Davidson, of Inchmarlo, co. Kincardine, J.P., D.L., by his wife, Flora Frances (died 6 Jan. 1884), eldest dau. of sir Francis Burdett, of Foremark, 7th Bart.; _b._ Inchmarlo, 28 March, 1877, and was educated at Harrow. He served some time with the 3rd Gordon Militia, and during the South African War obtained (21 April, 1900) through King Edward a commission as 2nd Lieut, in the Seaforth Highlanders, although he was over the age, and was promoted Lieut. 19 April, 1902, and Capt. 25 March, 1911. He afterwards served with his regt. in Egypt and India, and was Adjutant to the 4th (Territorial) Battn. of the Seaforths from 1909 to 1913. Capt. Davidson was stationed at Agra when the European War broke out, and he went with his regt. to France, arriving there in Oct. 1914. He was severely wounded at Festubert, 17 Dec. 1914, and was invalided home. He returned to his own battn. on 28 March, and fell at Neuve Chapelle on 9 May 1915, while commanding the first company in the attack on the German trenches. His colonel wrote: "He was twice wounded in the advance, but still went on until he finally fell still leading his company. He was a good officer and a great favourite, and was much loved by officers and men. We miss him very much. He was a gallant fellow"; and again: "It was he who led us in everything, no matter what; and Ritchie told me it was Hamlyn who reached the German trenches in the fore front as usual. The 1st Battn. have lost their bravest and most gallant officer, and his brother officers their dearest pal. Both battns. have suffered so heavily, and how you have felt for us, I know, and I and others of the two battns. who knew and loved your son so well, grieve with you in your great loss. A brother officer tells me that the moment he crossed the parapet they came under heavy machine gun fire. He was hit, got up again, hit again; and again up at the head of what remained of his company. Then he was hit again and fell near the German trenches, and he could not or would not retire." His younger brother, Capt. L. E. O. Davidson, R.F.A., Adjutant of the 55th Brigade, received the D.S.O. for gallant conduct on 16 Sept. 1914. [Illustration: =Duncan Hamlyn Davidson.=] =DAVIDSON, JAMES=, Private, No. 9720, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards; _b._ Bothwell Belshill, co. Lanark; enlisted 4 Sept., 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 23 July, 1915. He _m._ at Blantyre, 14 Dec. 1907, Mary (34, Hale Street, Blantyre), dau. of (--) Kelly, and had four daus.: Mary, _b._ 4 Dec. 1908; Annie, _b._ 23 May, 1910; Catherine, _b._ 23 Aug. 1912, and Agnes, _b._ 25 Sept. 1914. =DAVIDSON, JOHN HENRY=, Coy. Sergt.-Major, No. 125, 9th Battn. Durham L.I. (T.F.), _s._ of Robert Davidson, of 75, Thomas Terrace, Blaydon-on-Tyne, Foreman on the N.E.R. Co., by his wife. Ellen; _b._ Hexham, co. Northumberland, 17 March, 1885; educ. Blaydon Council School; enlisted in the 5th Vol. (now the 9th Territorial) Battn. D.C.L.I.; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and greatly distinguished himself on Whit Monday, at the Second Battle of Ypres, when he carried four men who were gassed to a place of safety; was for this promoted Coy. Sergt.-Major, and was killed in action, 22 June, 1915, being shot by a sniper; _unm._ Buried at Kemmel. His commanding officer, Lieut.-Col. Henderson spoke of him as a splendid soldier. =DAVIDSON, WILLIAM=, Chief Petty Officer (N.S.), 156472, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =DAVIDSON, WILLIAM LESLIE=, C.B., J.P., Col. on the Staff, R.A., 2nd _s._ of the late Patrick Davidson, of Inchmarlo, co. Kincardine, LL.D., J.P., D.L., by his wife, Mary Anne, eldest dau. of William L |