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Private DAVID ALEXANDER WATSON

Service Number: 5735503
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Dorsetshire Regiment

Date of Death

Died 02 October 1943

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HEYWOOD CEMETERY, LANCASHIRE

Sec. J. C. of E. Grave 411.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Stanley and Charlotte Watson, of Hopwood, Heywood.
  • Personal Inscription A SMILING FACE THAT WILL NEVER COME HOME WHEN THEY SOUND THE LAST ALL CLEAR
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Buried or commemorated at

HEYWOOD CEMETERY, LANCASHIRE
Lancashire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 74
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