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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Watkins John George
|Army number=4442979
|Rank=Corporal
|Date of birth=Born 1/3/1903.  Birth registered in Hartlepool, Q2 1903. 
|Decorations=None known so far.
|Age=89 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Joined The Durham Light Infantry.  Enlisted 10/11/1923 at Durham as a Regular Soldier for a  7/5 engagement, aged 20.  Probably recalled to the Colours from the Reserve or he may have re-enlisted.  Posted to the 10th Bn DLI - date not yet known but known to have been with 10th Battalion in France on 11/5/1940, so may have been mobilised 1/9/1939.  Served B.E.F.  Served Iceland?  Transferred to the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers 20/8/1942.  Transferred to the Army Catering Corps 9/9/1944 - Daily Orders M70/44, documents sent.
|Joined Brigade=Possibly 1/9/1939.
|Wounded=Not so far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Died October 1992, Kensington and Chelsea, London.  (Had he become an In-Pensioner at Chelsea Hospital?).
|Home address=Son of John G Watkins (1877 - 1950) and Lily Clark Kilburn (1879 - ? )  Born Holy Trinity, Hartlepool.  Worked as a Labourer.  Next of kin was his uncle James Kilburn, of Warren St. Hartlepool.  No trace yet of a marriage.
|Source table=10DLI
}}