Name
Horace Stanley Davidson
1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/08/1918
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
511873
London Regiment (London Scottish)
1st/14th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY, WIMILLE
II. F. 17.
France
Headstone Inscription
UNTIL THE DAY DAWN AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Borehamwood memorials
Pre War
Horace Stanley Davidson was born in 1890, in Worthing, Sussex, son of Angus Davidson, a Tailor and Alice Davidson (nee Mann), a Tailoress. His father Angus was born on The Shetland Islands.
1891 Census records Horace age 7 months, living with his parents, and six siblings at, “Ardingley House” Stanley Road, Broadwater, Worthing, Sussex.
1901 Census records Horace, his parents, and four siblings living at, 2, Lennox Road, Worthing, Sussex.
In 1911 Horace is a Branch Manager (Outfitting Store) living with his mother Alice and brother Archibald at, 12, Little Ealing Lane, South Ealing, Middlesex. His father Angus was working as a Tailor, and lodging in Worthing, Sussex. Angus died in Worthing in February 1918, aged 86.
Wartime Service
Horace enlisted in London in the later part of 1915, in the 14th Battalion, London Regiment (London Scottish) with the service number 5546, later 511873. Serving on the Western Front.
He died on the 29 August 1918, of wounds received in action.
Additional Information
His mother Alice received a Dependents Pension of 18/- a week from 4 March 1919. The pension record Card gives her addresses as “Chesterfield Lodge” Home Lane, Acton, W. and 17, Darville Road, Ravenscourt Park, W6. She also received his effects of £6-12s-1d Pay Owing and his £14, War Gratuity.
We found no connection with Borehamwood for Horace. Other than the CWGC database record that a A. Davidson Esq., Smith’s Store’s, Theobald Road, Borehamwood, Herts, requested the inscription on his Headstone. (“UNTIL THE DAY DAWN AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY”). We have assumed this was his brother Archibald, as his father Angus died in February 1918 and that Archibald was living in Borehamwood at the time.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
