Birth GRO 1st qtr 1899
Davidson, Dudley Percy Weymouth 5a 279
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The Brisbane Courier Obit
Pilot B. [sic] P. Davidson, who met with almost instant death when the aeroplane crashed, was about 35 years of age, and a son of Vice-Admiral Alexander Percy Davidson, D.S.O., who was in command of H.M.S. Cornwallis throughout the Gallipoli campaign, and retired in 1921, two years before his son came to Australia. The late pilot was a member of the Royal Naval Air Service during the war, most of his fighting being done in the Blimps that patrolled the English Channel. He was mentioned in despatches for his work during one raid on German submarines. He had evidently had but little experience with aeroplanes then, for when he came to Australia in 1923 he underwent a full course of flying at the Point Cook aerodrome, Victoria. He joined the R.A.A.F. in that State shortly afterwards, and was a flying member of the force until he came to Brisbane last March to join the ranks of pilots in the service of the newly-formed Queensland Air Navigation Ltd. He was one of the crew that flew the first ’plane north for the company, and he had been piloting its machines over the route since then. Members of the company in Brisbane were shocked by the news of his death last night. He was most popular with his co-pilots, all of whom regarded him as a most efficient flyer.
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1920 Jan 23. Fined 10/- for riding a bicycle without lights in Cambridge, where he is a university undergraduate.
1920 Dec 6. Joined ADRIC with service no 1163. Posted J Coy
1921 Apr 7. Posted to Q Coy
Fined 10/- by Coy Commander
1922 Jan 16 Discharged on demobilisation of ADRIC
1923. After his arrival in Australia in 1923, Dudley Percy Davidson divided his time as a pilot between New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.
1929 Married in St Andrew's Anglican Cathedral, Sydney, Australia to Florence E McMillan
1930 Dec 30 Died in Australia. He was the pilot in an aircraft crash.