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{{Personnel
|id=1588
|Surname and forenames=Watson Robert
|Army number=4459445
|Rank=Pte
|Age=23
|Unit=DLI, 1 TS
|Died/Killed in action=27/5/1940 00:00:00
|Home address=Son of William and Isabella M Watson, Whickham.
|Source table=1TS
}}

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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.
 |Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
 |Date of birth=Not known.
-|Age=(At time of death) Not known.
 |Company/Battery=A Company.
 |Platoon or other sub-unit=Not known.

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 |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.
+|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.  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.
+|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
 }}

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 |Surname and forenames=Watson Robert
 |Army number=4459445
-|Rank=Pte
+|Rank=Private.
-|Age=23
+|Age=23 at the time of his death.
-|Unit=Durham Light Infantry, No Enlistment Date, Trf Black Watch 1/2/1940, Posted 1 TS, 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.
-|Died/Killed in action=27-May-40
+|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
-|Home address=Son of William and Isabella M Watson, Whickham.  Buried Grave 3, Plot 2, Row A, Cambrai (Rue des Solesmes) Communal Cemetery.
+|Date of birth=Not known.
 |Source table=1TS
 }}