In The Huts Cemetery, Belgium is the Commonwealth War Grave of 11713 Private David Russell Patterson, serving with the 14th (Pioneers) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, who died 24/09/1917.

Colin McMillan has provided the following:

David Russell Patterson was born in St. Andrews, Fifeshire in about 1894 although the Scotland’s People website has his surname spelt with only one “t” and show  his year of birth as 1893.

In 1901 he was living with his uncle and aunt, George and Christina Irons in Dundee.

By 1911 he was living with another uncle, Robert William Thompson (42) at 43 Putney Terrace, Newbiggin by the Sea. The 17 year old David Russell Patterson was a miner, a putter below ground.

He enlisted into the army at Morpeth and served with the 14th (Pioneers) Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers.and was killed in action on 24th September 1917 and is buried at the Huts Cemetery near Ypres (Ieper) in Belgium.

Morpeth Herald 26/10/1917 carries a brief obituary:
ROLL OF HONOUR
PATTERSON.- Killed in action, September 24th, aged 26 years, Private D.R. Patterson, beloved husband of Mary Patterson, 5 Reid Street, Morpeth.- Will be ever remembered by his loving wife and child.

David Russell Patterson is remembered at Morpeth on M17.01, M17.09 and M17.29