Private 4912 David Saxton
Regiment/Unit: Lancashire Fusiliers - 10th Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Age at death: 32
Date of death: 27th of June 1916
Born: St Helens, Lancs
Resided: Hyde, Cheshire
Burial / Memorial: Thiepval Memorial - Pier and Face 3 C and 3 D.
Census details:
1891 Census has David 7 b Whiston, Lancashire living with his parents John James 45, Lydia 44 and siblings George Frederick 15, Dorothy Agnes 12 and Harold Percy 10 living at Far End, Whaley Bridge, Fernilee, Chapel En Le Frith, Derbyshire 1901 Census has David 17 b St Helens employed as a Private in the Militia Infantry at The Barracks Bolton Road, Elton, Bury, Lancashire 1911 Census finds David aged 27 employed as Colliery Labourer Above Ground b Rainhill. He is living with his wife Bertha and son David 6 at 43 Grafton Street, Hyde, Cheshire
Notes:
Age taken from census.
Age taken from census.
[pic]imgs/WW1_memorials/DSaxton_LFs.jpg[/pic][caption]The inscription for Private David Saxon on the Thiepval Memorial
(Photograph courtesy of Ste M.)[/caption]
