John Bruce DAVIDSON

25 September 1914

THE ROLL OF HONOUR

The following men have answered the appeal by joining the Settle Company of the 10th Battalion of the Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment:–

From Austwick – William Hoyle, Wilson Pritchard, Samuel Shepherd, Fred Swale, John William Thistlewaite, George Thistlewaite.
Airton – Kayley Earnshaw.
Arncliffe – Percy Hodgson, John Simpson.
Bolton-by-Bowland – Irvine Clark, Jim Coates, Richard Davies Ellison, Harold Greenhow, Edward Victor Grubb, James Mason, Robert Singleton, Joseph Chapman Syers.
Bell Busk – Leonard Fox.
Clapham – Albert Edward Drury, Arthur Herbert Procter.
Grindleton – William Irvin Bell, James Wilding Clarkson, Joshua Crossley, William Walker.
Gisburn – Anthony Lofthouse, John Robinson.
Hellifield – James John Angus, Charles Graham, Thomas Harding, Charles Harwood, Sidney Hoar, John Ernest Linnett, Joseph Edward Preston, Thomas Procter, Christopher Ralph, Norman Roberts, Fred Graham.
Horton – John Bruce Davidson.
Ingleton – Hugh Robinson.
Longpreston – Arthur Bailey, Thomas Garnett, John Henry Hitchin, Henry Edward Horner, William Jones, James Kayley, Job Kayley, Arthur Lawson, William Henry Metcalfe, Joseph Parker, William Procter, William Rawlinson.
Langcliffe – Richard Butler, Thomas Henry Edmondson.
Marton – John Beckwith.
Malham – James Swinbank.
Newsholme – Thomas Edward Askew, Carl Parrington Branthwaite, Benjamin Ashton Butler, William Henry Scott.
Otterburn – Harry Gilbert Tunstill.
Settle – Robert William Bell, Ernest Campbell, George Clark, John Thomas Cockerill, Robert Cresswell, Herbert Dickinson, William Edward Gibson, George Jellett, Thomas Laytham, Robert Henry Maunders, Robert Newhouse, Walter Umpleby, Thomas Walsh, Solomon Richard Webb.
Stainforth – Walter Dinsdale.
Slaidburn – Edwin Isherwood, Walter Isherwood, Abel Moore, Charles Edward Parker, George Whitfield.
Wigglesworth – Fred Metcalfe, George Oversby.
Waddington – Joseph Barrett Hartley, Albert Hird [Herd], Harry Smith, Thomas Rigby, William Watson.

21 July 1916

DAVIDSON – In hospital at Rouen, Pte. John Bruce Davidson, of Dent.

21 July 1916

DENT

DEATH OF LOCAL MAN AT THE FRONT – On Monday last Mr. and Mrs. J. Davidson, of Laning, Dent, received the sad news that their eldest surviving son, John Bruce Davidson, who volunteered for active service at the commencement of the war, and since then has served in the Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment, had died from face wounds in hospital at Rouen. Deceased was a man of estimable character and a general favourite with all who knew him. Great sympathy is felt for his father, mother, sisters and brothers in their bereavement.

28 July 1916

DENT

MEMORIAL SERVICE – On Sunday evening last a special service was held in the Parish Church in memory of those Dent soldiers who had fallen in battle, but especially of J.B. Davidson, who, before leaving Dent, had been a member of the choir. The organist, Miss M.A. Fawcett, played as a voluntary, ‘O rest in the Lord’, and appropriate hymns were sung. The Vicar spoke highly of deceased, whom he had known as a scholar in the Sunday School, member of his Bible Class, candidate for confirmation, communicant, and member of the choir. An excellent report of him had been received from the Chaplain of the Forces.