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|Died/Killed in action=Died April 1987, Bury St Edmunds.  Cremated Cambridgeshire 21/4/1987.
 
|Died/Killed in action=Died April 1987, Bury St Edmunds.  Cremated Cambridgeshire 21/4/1987.
 
|Home address=Son of Robert Bartlow Watkins and Elsie Henrietta Davey.  Married Nancy C Loxley in Lancaster Q4 1942.  Resident at 5,Southlands Road, Bromley, Kent in 1946.
 
|Home address=Son of Robert Bartlow Watkins and Elsie Henrietta Davey.  Married Nancy C Loxley in Lancaster Q4 1942.  Resident at 5,Southlands Road, Bromley, Kent in 1946.
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|Image Title=Major Watkins in Iceland with Ariel C4 Number 312688
 
|Image Title=Major Watkins in Iceland with Ariel C4 Number 312688
 
|Source table=10DLI
 
|Source table=10DLI
 
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Latest revision as of 09:49, 19 April 2020

Personnel Entry

Major Watkins in Iceland with Ariel C4 Number 312688
Major Watkins in Iceland with Ariel C4 Number 312688

Name Watkins Michael Robert Henry
Army number 105612
Rank 2/Lt
Decorations Territorial Efficiency Medal 21/1/1949.
Date of birth Born 11/6/1917, Wandsworth, London. Mother's maiden surname Davey.
Age 0
Unit Enlisted in the Artists Rifles. Joined The Durham Light Infantry - Emergency Commission as a 2/Lt 19/11/1939. Posted to, and joined, 10th Bn DLI 5/12/39. Served BEF? Served Iceland. Attached to 156th Infantry Brigade as a Mountain Warfare Instructor 5/6/1942. Returned to 10th Bn DLI. Served Normandy. With Battalion on disbandment - August 1944. Posted 6th Bn DLI. Left 6th Bn by December 1944. Unemployed list as Hon Capt 1946.
Company/Battery HQ, A, D.
Platoon or other sub-unit Tank-hunting.
Task or role Platoon Commander, Company 2i/c, Officer Commanding Company 30/6/1944.
Joined Brigade 05-Dec-39.
Promotions W/S Lt 19/5/1941, T/Captain 17/11/1942.
Wounded
Prisoner of War
Died/Killed in action Died April 1987, Bury St Edmunds. Cremated Cambridgeshire 21/4/1987.
Home address Son of Robert Bartlow Watkins and Elsie Henrietta Davey. Married Nancy C Loxley in Lancaster Q4 1942. Resident at 5,Southlands Road, Bromley, Kent in 1946.
Source table 10DLI