BORN SCARBOROUGH, 1881. SON OF WILLIAM WATSON & EMILY BRAITHWAITE, 2 HERBERT’S TERRACE, WASSAND STREET AND 14 THORNE TERRACE, STRICKLAND STREET, HULL (1918 ABSENT VOTERS AND CWGC ADDRESS). ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. WORKED AS A GENERAL LABOURER.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED IN THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS, AT THE COTTINGHAM SANITORIUM, AGED 39. HE IS BURIED IN HULL WESTERN CEMETERY.
HIS BROTHERS, JOHN FRANCIS WATSON DIED ON 22/02/1914, AGED 26; GEORGE ROBERT BRAITHWAITE WATSON, DIED IN 1915, AGED 38; AND RICHARD JAMES WATSON DIED ON 04/11/1918, AGED 28.
First name:
WALTER FREDERICK
Regiment:
Military Number:
11202
Rank:
Private
Date Died
03/01/1920
Place died:
Hull Western Cemetery, East Yorkshire, UK
Age:
39
14 THORNE TERRACE, STRICKLAND STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
