Telegram from the War Office to Samuel Cleland Davidson, 7 July 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Reginald H. Brade

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Telegram from the War Office in London to Samuel Cleland Davidson (1846-1921) reporting the death of his son, Captain James Davidson (1877-1916). Captain Davidson was serving with the Machine Gun Corps when he was killed in action in France on 1 July 1916. The War Office express their sympathy.Sir Samuel Cleland Davidson was an Irish inventor and founder of the Sirocco Engineering Works in Belfast. During the First World War the Sirocco Engineering Works manufactured and exported equipment for cooling, drying, dust collecting, heating, ventilating, pneumatic conveyance for the Royal and Merchant Navy. Sir Reginald H Brade (1864-1933) was the secretary of the War Office throughout the First World War.

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland Davidson Papaers, D3642-A-2-5-4 https://letters1916.ie/item/1055 English Reginald H. Brade 1916-07-07 War Office, London, England Samuel Cleland Davidson Seacourt, Bangor, Co. Down, Ireland World War I (1914-1918) Personal Relations World War I (1914-1918) Personal Relations

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 OHMS war office London S.C. Davidson Seacount Bangor Co Down Deeply regret to inform you that Capt J. S. Davidson machine gun corps was killed in action on 1st July the army council expresses their sympathy secy war office War Office, London, England Letter from Bertram Cubitt to Robert Chalmers, 3 June 1916Letter from B. B. Cubitt, War Office, to Sir Matthew Nathan, 2 December 1915Letter from J. Simpson to the Chief Crown Solicitor, 20 April 1916Letter from B.B. Cubitt to the Under-Secretary of State, Home Office, 30 March 1916Deportation Order from the Secretary of State to James Gough, 17 June 1916Telegram from the War Office to Samuel Cleland Davidson, 7 July 1916Letter from David Lloyd George to John Redmond, 29 September 1916Letter from the Surgeon General, War Office, to The President, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, 7 November 1915Letter from sir William Robert Robertson to Edward Carson, 7 June 1916 Seacourt, Bangor, Co. Down, Ireland Letter from James Davidson to Clara Mary Davidson, 3 November 1915Letter from James Davidson to his mother, Clara Mary. Davidson, 16 February 1916Letter from James Davidson to Clara Davidson, 30 June 1916Telegram from Samuel Davidson to Frederick Ponsonby, 11 July 1916Letter from K.E. Fitzgerald to Clara Davidson, 5 July 1916Postcard from James Davidson to Clara Davidson, 25 June 1916Letter from James Davidson to Clara Davidson, 28 June 1916Telegram from the War Office to Samuel Cleland Davidson, 7 July 1916Telegram from James Davidson to Samuel and Clara Davidson, 8 April 1916Letter from James Davidson to Clara Davidson, 12 April 1916Letter from James Davidson to Clara Davidson, 18 June 1916Letter from James Davidson to Clara Davidson, 16 April 1916Letter from James Davidson to Clara Davidson, 21 June 1916Letter from James Davidson to his mother, Clara Mary Davidson, 29 February 1916Letter from James Davidson to his father Samuel Cleland Davidson, 16 February 1916Letter from James Davidson to Clara Davidson, 5 June 1916Letter from James Davidson to Clara Davidson, 6 June 1916Telegram from James Davidson to Samuel and Clara Davidson, 10 April 1916Letter from James Davidson to Clara Davidson, 9 April 1916Letter from James Davidson to Clara Davidson, 15 June 1916 Reginald H. Brade Telegram from the War Office to Samuel Cleland Davidson, 7 July 1916Letter from A. P. Lynch to Sir Reginald H Brade, 12 May 1916.Letter from A. P. Lynch to Reginald H Brade, 5 May 1916.Letter from Henry Lawson to Reginald H. Brade, 11 February 1916 Samuel Cleland Davidson Telegram from Samuel Cleland Davidson to Captain SJ Davidson, 6 March 1916Telegram from Samuel Davidson to Frederick Ponsonby, 11 July 1916Note from R.B. Henry to Samuel Davidson, 10 July 1916Letter from Samuel Davidson to Lieutenant William Ashcroft, 7 July 1916Telegram from the War Office to Samuel Cleland Davidson, 7 July 1916Letter from William Ashcroft to Samuel Cleland & Clara Davidson, 3 July 1916Telegram from James Davidson to Samuel and Clara Davidson, 8 April 1916Letter from James Davidson to Samuel Davidson, 9 June 1916Letter from James Davidson to his father Samuel Cleland Davidson, 16 February 1916Telegram from James Davidson to Samuel and Clara Davidson, 10 April 1916