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Potsdam resident wins William K. Emerson Writing Award from Company of Military Historians

Posted 4/27/16

POTSDAM -- William E. Davidson of Potsdam won the William K. Emerson Writing Award from the Company of Military Historians. He was honored for best paper on material culture published in the …

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Potsdam resident wins William K. Emerson Writing Award from Company of Military Historians

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POTSDAM -- William E. Davidson of Potsdam won the William K. Emerson Writing Award from the Company of Military Historians.

He was honored for best paper on material culture published in the company’s 2015 quarterly journal, “Military Collector and Historian.”

Davidson’s research paper dealt with the King Howitzer (1775-1820) and appeared in the publication’s spring and winter issues.

The Ordnance Society of the United Kingdom will reprint the paper in their annual journal.

Davidson is a former military re-enactor, portraying the War of 1812 as part of the Plattsburgh-based New York Militia Artillery Company.

After about a half-dozen years there, he began writing for Military Collector and Historian. He has written five articles on the 1775-1820 period, along with two on his experiences in the Korean War as an aircrewman launching meteorological radiosondes by parachute on Guam-based typhoon-chasing W-29s in 1950-51.