BORN HULL 1896. SON OF JAMES CHARLES WATERSON & JANE ANN WATERSON ABOVE. WAS AN APPRENTICE MARINE ENGINEER. HE ENLISTED IN THE RFA IN MARCH 1914 AND WAS SENT TO FRANCE IN JANUARY 1915. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION AT LOOS, ON 25/09/1915, AGED 19.
HIS BROTHER GUNNER, F. WATERSON WAS A HULL POLICE MAN AND STATIONED AT PARLIAMENT STREET. THE BROTHERS PHOTOGRAPHS WERE PRINTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 14TH OCTOBER 1915. * DAVID’S DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 16TH OCTOBER 1915, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
UNMARRIED. HE LEFT BROTHERS, WALTER, PERCY AND SISTER ELIZABETH.
Commemorated at LOOS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France
First name:
DAVID
Military Number:
77347
Rank:
Gunner
Date Died
25/09/1915
Place died:
Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
19
39 , KIMBERLEY STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
