A Moray pensioner is widening his search for the descendants of a lost soldier so he can return his prized World War I service medal.
George Singer made an appeal in the Press and Journal last month to the family of Private Charles Davidson.
last night the retired Hydro Board engineer said he had been delighted with the response – and was all the more determined to find his relatives.
Mr Singer, of Smith Drive, Elgin, said: “A guy in the next street phoned me and put me in touch with the Davidson Clan Society and I’ve had genealogists from Grantown and Banchory contact me with quite a lot of information.
“We know he was killed in 1917. It just seems they are not able to locate any living relatives at the moment and we have had nothing from the family.”
Mr Singer is searching for relations of Charles Abernethy Davidson, who was 24 signed up for war service with the Royal Scots on December 11, 1915.
He was born on December 28, 1890 at 21 Woolmanhill, Aberdeen and lived unmarried at 40 Castle Street.
He worked as a barman before going to war and served in France where he went missing, presumed dead, on April 28, 1917.
The son of Thomas Davidson and Margaret (nee Garden) Davidson, who were married at Woodside in Aberdeen on November 25, 1881, he had four older siblings – Jessie, Thomas, Grace and William Andrew.
His mother, Margaret, also had a daughter Margaret Dyce Garden, who was Charles’ step-sister.
His eldest sister, Jessie, had an illegitimate child to Joseph Selbie Brechin on March 5, 1901. Their son, William Thomas Brechin, was born at Colford, Drumoak, and went on to marry Helen Brown Esson in Rubislaw, Aberdeen, in 1926.
He died in Aberdeen in 1970, aged 69.