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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Davison Herbert Denison
|Army number=4452474
|Rank=Private.
|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, no enlistment date confirmed as yet but certainly pre-WW2.  Posted to the 8th Battalion?  Posted to the 11th Bn DLI.  Served in Northern France with the B.E.F. Taken Prisoner of War on 20/5/1940 at Ficheux.  Confirmation received 12/7/1940.  Returned to the UK May 1945  Discharged under King's Regulations 1940 Para 390 (xviii)A 8/6/1946.
|Prisoner of War=Yes - PoW Number 438.  Held in Camps - Oflag VIIC Bavaria 12/6/1940 to April 1941 (possibly as a Batman), Oflag VIB Germany April 1941 - March 1942, Stalag VIIIB Germany March 1942.  He spent time at Work Camps in Germany - woodcutting, Upper Silesia - working in a food store, sugar factory and coal mines.
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.  His MI9 form was completed on 13/5/1945.
|Date of birth=Born 13/1/1920, birth registered Q1 1920, mother's maiden surname Davison.
|Age=59 at the time of his death.
|Company/Battery=Not yet known.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Not yet ascertained, but probably Rifleman.
|Joined Brigade=Date not yet confirmed.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not as far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Died 26/7/1979 aged 59.  Buried in Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, Matraville, Randwick City, New South Wales, Australia
|Home address=Worked as a footman.  Lived at 5 Laurel Avenue, Sherburn Road, Durham.  No family details available but research suggests he had a brother.  Emigrated to Australia.
|Source table=11DLI
}}