Difference between revisions of "Watson Robert Pte 4459445"
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|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, no enlistment date as yet, but his number suggests Summer 1939. Posted to the ? 9th Battalion. Posted to the ? 12th Battalion. Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/1940, and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish. Served in Northern France with the B.E.F. DIED 27/5/40, Cambrai, France. | |Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, no enlistment date as yet, but his number suggests Summer 1939. Posted to the ? 9th Battalion. Posted to the ? 12th Battalion. Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/1940, and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish. Served in Northern France with the B.E.F. DIED 27/5/40, Cambrai, France. | ||
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards. | |Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards. | ||
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|Company/Battery=A Company. | |Company/Battery=A Company. | ||
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not known. | |Platoon or other sub-unit=Not known. | ||
Latest revision as of 17:14, 11 March 2022
Personnel Entry
Name Watson Robert
Army number 4459445
Rank Private.
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards.
Date of birth Not known.
Age 23 at the time of his death.
Unit Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, no enlistment date as yet, but his number suggests Summer 1939. Posted to the ? 9th Battalion. Posted to the ? 12th Battalion. Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/1940, and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish. Served in Northern France with the B.E.F. DIED 27/5/40, Cambrai, France.
Company/Battery A Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit Not known.
Task or role Probably Rifleman.
Joined Brigade 1/9/1939.
Promotions None known.
Wounded Not known. Probable, in view of his death later in May, that he died of wounds sustained at Ficheux, or was killed during the retreat to Dunkirk.
Prisoner of War No.
Died/Killed in action DIED 27/5/1940. No information available on initial interment. Buried Grave 3, Plot 2, Row A, Cambrai (Rue des Solesmes) Communal Cemetery. Headstone inscription reads : SWEET IS HIS MEMORY, DEAR IS HIS NAME, LOVED AND LONGED FOR BY MAM, DAD & BROTHER TOM.
Home address Son of William and Isabella M Watson, Whickham.
Source table 1TS
