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WATSON, Harry Greenwood

Watson, Harry Greenwood

Rank: Private

Year of death: 1916

Date of birth: 1881(4th quarter)

Date of death: 12/09/1916

Place of death: France

Service number: 10295 or 3/10295 * see below

Regiment: Prince of Wales Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) 2nd Battalion

Medals: British War Medal and Victory Medal (as Henry Watson)

Cemetery location: Peake Wood Cemetery, Fricourt, Somme, France A.20

Where remembered?:
FRICOURT A 20
Dean Road Cemetery Scarborough (section A)


Biographical Information

Son of John Henry and Esther Watson, Scarborough.
Baptised at St Mary`s Parish Church, 6th November 1881.
Will- Leaves property and effects to his Aunt Mary Kelly, 10 Oak Terrace, Tantobie, Co Durham

*Note
May also be recorded as

Henry Watson (Naval and Military Archive)
Private
Born Scarborough Yorkshire
Enlisted Gateshead
Residence Tantobie Co Durham
Number 3/10295
Died 12/09/1916
Killed in action
France and Flanders

 


Inscription

(family stone Dean Road Cemetery Scarborough section A)
Also of H.G. Watson, son of the above who was killed in action in France September 12th 1916 aged 35 years