Private David Wilson

Private David Wilson, 1st/7th ( Territorial ) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He died in France on 2nd May 1915 , aged 25, of wounds received in action during the abortive attack at St. Julien on 26th April. He was the only son of Margaret Brown ( formerly Wilson ) and the late Thomas Wilson of 5 Gibson’s Row, Spittal and is buried in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery. His Headstone is inscribed ” Till The Day Breaks And The Shadows Flee Away “. He was a cooper to trade but before enlisting he had been employed as a postman in Berwick. The Battalion had only landed in France on 21st April. The photograph shows the impressive Memorial raised to commemorate the 50th ( Northumbrian ) Division of which the Battalion was part until February 1918 when it was transferred to the 42nd ( East Lancashire ) Division as the Pioneer Battalion. It was erected near the village of Weiltje in the Ypres Salient where nearby the Division had fought its first action of the War on 26th April 1915.

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