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Military service
Service number:
13360
Age:
41
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Division:
5th Battalion
Birth:
November 13, 1873
Girvan Ayrshire, Scotland
Enlistment:
September 21, 1914
Valcartier, Québec
Death:
April 25, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Husband of Isabella Sharpe Davidson of Merritt, British Columbia. They had two sons, both deceased: Robert McBlane Davidson and David Davidson who was born in Merritt, British Columbia in August 1913.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Robert Mcblain Davidson
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War Memorial
War Memorial, Merritt and Nicola Valley District, British Columbia. The Cenotaph was unveiled on November 6th, 1921. There are 44 names on three sides of the memorial representing those men who died during World War One. A panel was added at a later date to include 18 names of local men who died in World War Two. Inscribed: IN HONOUR OF THE MEN OF MERRITT AND THE NICOLA VALLEY DISTRICT / OUR WELL BELOVED DEAD WHO DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE / GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Robert Mcblain Davidson
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Robert Mcblain Davidson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 11 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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