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BORN BEVERLEY 1887. SON OF EMMA BROOKS (1846-1922) & FREDERICK WATSON (1843-1904), AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS.  HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. LIVED IN BEVERLEY. WORKED AS A CLERK FOR A COAL MERCHANT. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS LANCE SERGEANT, IN THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 21/09/1916, AGED 30. BURIED AT CORBIE, ON […]

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, O […]

BORN HULL 1889. YOUNGEST SON OF GEORGE ROSENDALE WATSON & MRS MARY ELIZABETH WATSON, OF BRANTINGHAM. HIS FAMILY RAN A MACHINE THRESHING BUSINESS IN BRANTINGHAM WHICH HE WORKED FOR. ENLISTED HULL. FORMERLEY, PRIVATE, 3945 4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE 10TH KING'S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY. WENT TO FRANCE IN JULY 1 […]

BORN HULL 1896. SCULCOATES. SON OF JANE & LATE JAMES WATSON, OF 15, VICTORIA TERRACE, STUDLEY STREET, HULL. A DOCK LABOURER (1911 CENSUS) ENLISTED IN HULL. POSTED ABROAD ON 11/07/1915. DIED OF WOUNDS FROM GALLIPOLI, AT THE ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL, NETLEY. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, JANE. HE IS BURIED AT NETLEY MILITA […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1897. HULL POST OFFICE WORKER. SON OF JOSEPH & ADA WATSON. HE ENLISTED IN LONDON. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 5710, 8TH LONDON REGIMENT. HE WAS REPORTED WOUNDED ON 9TH OCTOBER. HIS DEATH WAS CONFIRMED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 6TH NOVEMBER 1916, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH.* HIS FATHER WAS AN OLD SOLDIER WHO HAD SERVED IN SOUTH AFRICA […]

Jack Watson was a well known Hull Fisherman. He worked for 15 years with the St Andrew's Fishing Company. He was washed away, on the Steam Trawler "Electric", and drowned with Joseph William Pettman, on 18/09/1916. Jack Watson left a widow and five children (three under 14), living at 13 Crown terrace, Walcott Street. His death was repor […]

BORN HULL 1897. SON OF ROBERT AND HANNAH WATSON, OF 40 CLIFTON STREET, HULL. ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. ENLISTED HULL. COMMISSIONED INTO THE 10TH MIDDLESEX (TERRITORIAL) REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION 01/10/1917, AGED 20. HE LEFT £193 IN HIS WILL TO JOHN WATSON, QUANTITY SURVEYOR. COMMEMORATED AT TYNE COT CEMETERY, BELGIUM AND FAMILY GRAVE, AT ST […]

BORN BELFAST 1897. SON OF ELLEN JANE WARD. HE LIVED IN WAKEFIELD AND HULL. KNOWN AS 'JERRY' WATSON. HE WAS EMPLOYED BY MESSRS. BLUNDELL & SPENCE LTD, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL. HE WAS AN OUTSTANDING AMATEUR RUGBY LEAGUE PLAYER, WHO PLAYED FOR THE WORKS TEAM, WITH 'WILF' COLLEY. JERRY WATSON WAS DESCRIBED AS "A 'CENTER THREE QUARTER' OF GR […]

Born Cottingham, 1890. James was the youngest of four children to Arthur (1859-1894) and Edith Watson (1858-1903), of Wood House, Cottingham. The 1911 Census finds him living with his siblings at 38 Victoria Avenue, Hull and working as a Bank Clerk. War changed all that forever. James queued in the long uneven lines of 1st September 1914 […]

BORN BURY, LANCASHIRE 1887. ONLY SON OF JAMES WATSON & SARAH FIRTH (1863-1918), OF, 18, AYLESFORD STREET, BOULEVARD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF AN ENGINE FITTER. HE HAD TWO SISTERS, MARY ANN AND SARAH. HE WAS WELL KNOWN IN BUSINESS CIRCLES AS AN ACCOUNTANT'S CLERK, BEING IN THE EMPLOYMENT OF WILKINSON ACCOUNTANTS, SCALE LANE, HUL […]

BORN HULL 12/8/1857. SON OF JOHN HENRY WATSON AND MARY ANN WATSON. MARRIED IN HULL, 07/08/1878. HUSBAND OF MARY ELIIZABETH LILL, AT 38 WITTY STREET, HULL. A MARINE ENGINEER. LOST AT SEA, ON 21/03/1917, AGED 57. Expedient, built by Mackie & Thomson, Govan in 1893 and owned at the time of her loss by Great Northern Steamship Fishing C […]

Born 1891. Son of Stephen Watson (1858-1931) and Margaret Ann Ellis (1862-1935), of "The Haven," Patrington, Hull (CWGC Address). Son of a farmer. He worked as a horseman. He had one brother and two sisters. Served in Coldstream Guards, No. 4 Coy. 1st Bn. He died of wounds, on 22/07/1917, aged 26, at No:4 Casualty Clearing Stataion. Bur […]

BORN HULL 1878. SON OF JAMES & LAVINIA WATSON, OF 16 SOVEREIGN PLACE, WILLIAM STREET, HULL . MARRIED TO ANNIE WITH FOUR CHILDREN. EX RECKITTS WORKER AT THE MORLEY STREET PLANT. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 4.5 INCHES TALL, 34-36 INCH CHEST SIZE, GOOD VISION, GOOD PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT. ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 22/05/1915. SERVED WITH THE 1ST EAS […]

BORN HULL 1891. HE WAS A THIRD HAND, LOST AT SEA ON A HULL TRAWLER. HE LEFT A WIDOW GERTRUDE WATSON AND AN INFANT CHILD AT 11 LIZZIES GROVE, LIVERPOOL STREET, HULL. HE WAS 25 YEARS OLD AND HAD BEEN SAILING OUT OF HULL ON TRAWLERS, SINCE HIS YOUTH. HE IS LISTED ON THE COTTINGHAM ROLL OF HONOUR. THERE IS NO CWGC OR SOLDIERS DIED RECORDS. […]

Born 1891. Joseph Watson was lost at sea, aged 25 On 19/04/1916 the Hull steam trawler HAWK (H389) sank following a collision with the Brazilian s.s. CORCOVADO (3046 gt/ b 1890) in the North Sea, 5 miles north-east of Spurn Light-vessel, whilst outward bound from Hull towards Iceland. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wre […]

Born Driffield, East Yorkshire, 1888. Son of the late Arthur Edward Watson, of Westgate, Driffield; He married at Driffield in 1915. Husband of Jane Elizabeth Binnington, of 29, Brook Street, Driffield, Yorkshire. He was a Woodworking Machinist. He enlisted in Hull. Served as CSM, 11th West Yorkshire Regiment. Killed in action, on 07/0 […]

BORN HULL 1885. SON OF DR. GEORGE HENRY & KATE WATSON, OF 192, HALLGATE, COTTINGHAM, HULL. EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL. PRIOR TO THE WAR HE WAS PRACTICING MEDICINE. HE SERVED AS A CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS. HE HAD BEEN AT THE FRONT FOR NINETEEN MONTHS. WOUNDED ON HE SOMME ON 16/09/1916 AND DIED OF WOUNDS TWO DAY […]

BORN NEWLANDS, HULL 1900. SECOND SON OF BOYNTON WATSON (1872-1930) & BERTHA WRIGHT (1879-1934), OF 23, WAINFLEET AVENUE, COTTINGHAM, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). A NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY WORKER. ENLISTED BEVERELY. SERVED WITH THE 8TH EYR. HE HAD BEEN IN FRANCE FOR THREE MONTHS. KILLED ON THE SOMME, 25/07/1916, AGED 16. COMMEMORATED ON THE […]

BORN HULL 29/10/1893. SON OF THE MARTHA SARAH ANN BLOOM (1854-1940) & FREDERICK WATSON (1853-1914), AT 4, ELSIE GROVE, FLINTON STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRSS). HE HAD TWO BRORS AND SIX SISTER. HIS FATHER WAS A COAL TEAMER AT THE ALBERT DOCKS IN HULL. SYDNEY WAS EDUCATED AT SCARBOROUGH STREET COUNCIL SCHOOL. WORKED AS A CRANE DRIVER AT ALB […]

BORN HUNMANBY, YORKSHIRE, 1886. SON OF THOMAS AND MARY ELIZA WATSON, OF HUNMANBY AND BRIDLINGTON. SON OF A GAS WORKS LABOURER. SECOND OF FOUR SONS. HE BOARDED AT 58 RUGBY STREET, HULL. WORKED AS A RAILWAY PORTER. ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 8TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 13/04/1917, AGED 31. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WER […]