BORN HULL 1899. SON OF JOHN & EMMA WATSON, OF 6 BROOKSIDE VILLAS, GRANGE STREET, FOUNTAIN ROAD, HULL. EX 22728 DUBLIN FUSILIERS. TRANSFERRED TO THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WOUNDED AT THE SOMME, ON 06/09/1916. INVALIDED TO THE QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL, WHALLEY, LANCASHIRE. RETURNED TO DUTIES WITH THE MACHINE GUN COPRS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 03/05/1917, AGED 18.
HE IS PICTURED WITH HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, ALFRED WATSON, EYR, ALSO WOUNDED, IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 22/09/1916. *
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, HARRY WATSON (EYR) WAS WOUNDED. PRIVATE, S. WATSON (EYR) WAS AWARDED THE MILITARY MEDAL (HDM 27/02/1918). ANOTHER BROTHER, WILLIAM WATSON, HAD JUST JOINED THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, AGED 19 AND WAS ALSO WOUNDED.