PRIVATE ALFRED DAVISON
15TH BATTALION DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY
10TH OCTOBER 1918 AGE 26
BURIED: TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY, WIMILLE, FRANCE
Alfred Davison was a 'mine putter' who worked in Ryhope Colliery, Sunderland, the mining town where he was born and where his mother and father had been born before him. A mine putter was the person who pushed the wagons from the coal face to a horse or mechanical haulage road. In the 1911 Census Davison gave his occupation as 'water leader', someone who clears water from the mines. On 29 January 1916 he married Ethel Trusty and their son Robert Trusty Davison, was born on 9 January 1917. Alfred Davison died on gunshot wounds to his face and hands in No. 8 Stationary Hospital, Wimereux, France on 10 October 1918, just one month before the end of the war. I am grateful to Trevor Davison's Family History File on Ancestry for much of this information.
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