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Name:

David Gilston HARDON

Casualty No.:

Ranks:

Private

Initials:

D G

Service No.:

50765

Date of Birth :

Place of Birth :

Maryport, Cumberland.

Age at Death:

Unit:

A Company, 7th (Service) Bn, The Border Regiment.

Former Unit(s):

Place Enlisted:

Carlisle, Cumberland, 30th May 1918.

Place of Residence:

How Mill, Carlisle, Cumberland.

Home Address:

Crook Bank, How Mill, Carlisle, Cumberland.

Previous Address:

Civilian Employment:

Agricultural worker.

How Died:

Killed in action.

Date of Death:

Place of Death:

Amerval, France.

Battle/Campaign:

Locally Commemorated:

No.

UK Commemorated:

Overseas Commemorated:

Buried:

Amerval Communal Cemetery Extension, Solesmes, France. Plot A. 24.

Decoration and Medals:

War Medal, Victory Medal.

Photographs:

Service Records:

Death Notice/Obituary:

No.

Family Details:

Son of James Hardon, by his wife, Annie, daughter of the late John Storey, of Ryton on Tyne, Co. Durham.

Notes :

Educated at Hayton and Talkin Schools, Cumberland.

Sources Used:

Soldiers Died in the Great War. De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour 1914-18, Vol. 5, pg 78.

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