Private William Watson
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date of birth: 1888-02-10
Place of birth: Carlisle Cumberland England
Next of kin: Mrs T W Cairns. Langhol, Dumfriessshire, Scotland
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): Miner
Religion: Roman Catholic
Date of death:
1917-04-08
Cause of death:
Died of wounds
Buried:
Ecoivres Military Cemetery, V. E. 21.
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: 81932
Highest Rank:
Private
(10th Battalion)
Rank detail
- Private (Army). 1914-12-14 ?
- Private, 10th Battalion, Infantry (Army).
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
Battle wounded/killed: Died of wounds in preliminary operations for Vimy Offensive
RESEARCH INFORMATION
CVWM ID: No CVWM ID in our database, but try
this.
CWGC ID: 66317
LAC ID:
302176
Service file: B10148-S005
Uploader's Notes: The war diary states that this man died of wounds after being wounded in Victoire Crater one day before the opening of the Vimy Offensive.
Uploader's Research notes:
Info from the attestation papers and the 10th Battalion war diary. This man is on the CWGC site.
Record for this soldier not found in details of death from Ancestry.com which includes a digitized image of the casualty form from the "Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948” database
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2022-02-15