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2nd.Eng. Robert Percy Davidson
Mercantile Marine SS Dauntless
from:Jarrow
(d.4th Feb 1917)
Robert Percy Davidson was the Second Engineer on the SS Dauntless from Newcastle. He was aged 24 when died on 4th February 1917 when the vessel was lost to a submarine attack. He was born and lived Jarrow, son of Robert and Caroline Davidson (nee Charlton) of Simonside Farm Jarrow. On the 1911 census he is listed as Percy Davidson age 18 Apprentice Fitter (Engineer) in Shipyard living with his widowed mother Caroline Davidson and family at Low Simonside Farm, Jarrow
Robert is remembered on the Tower Hill Memorial and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church, Jarrow.