PRIVATE BRUCE DONALD DAVISON. CANADIAN 1st DIVISION.
LOYAL EDMONTON REGIMENT.
Bruce Donald Davison was born on the first of June 1920. He lived and worked on the family homestead in Deep Creek, British Columbia, before enlisting in the Canadian Forestry Corps in 1940.
In 1941 he travelled overseas with No.7 CFC to Scotland and while working there met and married Margaret Cameron. In 1942 he re-trained for combat and was posted to the Loyal Eddies in April 1943. The Canadian 1st Division was included in the invasion of Sicily (Operation Husky) and by the 27th July 1943 he had landed there.
In the fierce fighting for the high ground near Agira, he was killed. In 1944 his body was moved from the temporary burial site and moved to the Canadian War Cemetery, Agira, when it was set up.
His daughter Ann was born in June 1943 after Bruce had left for Sicily.
My thanks go to Len Gamble for use of material from his excellent book SO YOUNG THEY WERE (Armstrong's fallen of the Second World War), which I found to be a good research tool and a good read as well.
