Northumberland Fusiliers
Medal Card
Derek Johnstone and Carole Fife have provided the following:
David Montgomery Douglass Barron was born at Blyth in 1895 to parents Thomas and Sarah Barron. In 1898 his father died and his mother married Alfred Senior Hall in the same year.
In 1901, David, aged 5, and his eldest brother Thomas lived with their maternal grandparents William and Marianna Stewart at Bell Street, Cowpen Northumberland.
The 1911 Census shows David aged 15 years old and working in the coal mines, living at 23, Dale Street, North Blyth. North Blyth is situated near to Cambois. In the house was his step brother Albert, 8, and step sister Elizabeth, aged 4 months. His stepfather Alfred Senior Hall, born in South Shields, is shown to be employed as a railway engine stoker.
Military records show that David enlisted at Blyth, Northumberland and after his death his effects went to his mother, indicating he would not have been married. His name is recorded in Ireland's Memorial Role of Casualties of the War because he served in a Tyneside Irish battalion.
David Montgomery Douglas Barron is remembered in Cambois on C6.02
