A Moray pensioner has issued a further appeal to trace the descendants of a lost soldier so he can return a prized World War I service medal.
George Singer has been hunting for the family of Private Charles Davidson since December and has made a number of breakthroughs.
The retired Hydro Board engineer is now hoping to close in on the Aberdeen-born soldier’s surviving relatives.
Mr Singer, of Smith Drive, Elgin, said: “I have no idea how the medal came to my father, but it was among some things he left to me.
“I thought it would be nice to return the medal to the Davidson family, so starting looking into it.
“I had a great response from the Davidson Clan Society, who helped me a lot gathering information, especially relating to the family tree. But we have still not been able to locate any living relatives.
“We have some new information relating to the family tree, and I’m hoping somebody might recognise something.”
Private Davidson was born on December 28, 1890 at 21 Woolmanhill, Aberdeen and lived unmarried at 40 Castle Street.
His service in the Royal Scots took him to France where he went missing, presumed dead, on April 28, 1917.
The youngest son of Thomas Davidson and Margaret (nee Garden) Davidson, who married in 1881, he had four siblings – Jessie, Thomas, Grace and William.
The most recent known descendant of the soldier is his great-nephew, James McLeod, of Aberdeen, who died in 1993.
He was the grandson of Charles Davidson’s eldest sister, Jessie, who married Joseph Selbie Brechin in 1906.
Their daughter Margaret Garden Brechin married John McLeod in Aberdeen in 1931 and had a son, James, two years later.
Another potential lead is Private Davidson’s nephew, William, who was born to his brother William and his wife Jessie Milne in Aberdeen in 1929. It is not known if he is still alive or if he had any family of his own.