Grave Location: IX. C. 15.

A standard Commonwealth Grave Commission (CWGC) inscribed gravestone.

From the CWGC Files:

Warrant Officer Class II (C.S.M.)

DAVIDSON, WILLIAM DAVID

Service Number P/21454

Died 25/05/1944

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.

M M

Son of William Davidson, and of Emily Kate Netterville Davidson, of Denton, Texas, U.S.A.

INSCRIPTION

HE LOVED HIS FELLOW-MAN

About the cemetery: The site for CASSINO WAR CEMETERY was originally selected in January 1944, but the development of the battle during the first five months of that year made it impossible to use it until after the Germans had withdrawn from Cassino. During these early months of 1944, Cassino saw some of the fiercest fighting of the Italian campaign, the town itself and the dominating Monastery Hill proving the most stubborn obstacles encountered in the advance towards Rome. The majority of those buried in the war cemetery died in the battles during these months.

The text on the gravestone is written in English and reads:

P/21454        WO II (CSM)

W.D. DAVIDSON M.M.

Princess Patricia's 

Canadian Light Infantry

25^TH MAY 1944

HE LOVED HIS FELLOW-MAN