Cyprus mutiny and his last three companions arrived there. The mutineers were tried in London and two of them, George James Davis and William Watts, were hanged in that city at Execution Dock on 16 December 1830, the last men hanged for piracy in Britain. Swallow, and two others, were returned to Hobart, where another one named James Camm was hanged. Swallow died at the British maximum security facility of Port Arthur. The mutiny is the subject of the Australian folk song "Cyprus Brig". Simon Barnard’s book "Gaolbird: The True Story of William Swallow, Convict and Pirate", is a fictionalised account of
William Mahlon Davis Donald Davis was serving overseas at the time of his father's death. He is commemorated on Page 395 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. William Mahlon Davis Lieutenant Colonel William Mahlon Davis was a Canadian surveyor, civil engineer, harbour engineer and officer. Lt. Col. William Mahlon Davis was born May 26, 1857, to Joel Wallace and Catherine Adams Davis in Malahide Township. William's grandfather (and Joel's father) was Deacon William Joseph Davis (1783-1865) who, with his four brothers, were among the first settlers in 1810 in the Malahide Township area William Mahlon Davis attended the Canadian Literary Institute,