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Able Seaman JOHN WATSON

Service Number: P/JX 169334
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Navy

H.M.S. Vortigern

Date of Death

Died 15 March 1942

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WIGTON CEMETERY

Sec. Z. Ward 1. Grave 11.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Mitchell Watson and Sarah Steele Watson; husband of Hannah Watson, of Grasslot, Maryport.
  • Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY OF JOHN WHO LOST HIS LIFE AT SEA BY ENEMY ACTION
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