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Private Harry Mitchell Davidson was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.

He was born in Headington, the son of Russian-born shopkeeper Daniel and Rosa Davidson (née Zacharias), of Oxford. At the time of the 1911 Census, Davidson too had become a shopkeeper and was living with his family and Australian-born wife Mary Edith Barrett at 57a Saint Clements.

Aged 34, Davidson died on 9 May 1917, of wounds received on the Salonica Front, while serving with the 7th (Service) Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.

He is buried in Doiran Military Cemetery, Greece.

References[]

  • Ancestry.co.uk.
  • Davidson, H M, cwgc.org. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
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