Roll of Honour of the 710 men of Hyde who fell in WW1
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Leslie DAVIE
Private 16633 Leslie DAVIE
7th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
Killed in Action, Saturday 25th September 1915, France, age 18
| Home address: | 34 Back Lane, Hyde, Cheshire |
| Born: | 1897, Hyde, Cheshire |
| Parents: | Florence Davie and Archibald Davie 34 Back Lane, Hyde, Cheshire |
| Marital status: | Single |
| Occupation: | Cotton Weaver |
| Enlisted: | Hyde, Cheshire |
| Remembered: | Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France, panel 54. |
| Link to Hyde: | Born in Hyde |
From Hyde in War Time, 1916 Part One, page 85:
Found lying dead on the battlefield, alongside the body of a German, on the 7th October, by a comrade, Sergeant C. H. Ash of the S.W. Borderers. Sergeant Ash wrote a sympathetic letter to Private Davie's parents informing them of his discovery, and that he had buried their son in the field of battle, and had placed a small wooden cross over the grave, also "a few flowers which had escaped the trample of the men." On the cross he wrote his rank, regiment and name.
In the 1921 Cenotaph Unveiling Booklet his death year is 1916.