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Private PERCY EDWARD WATKINS

Service Number: 5909
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South African Infantry

"C" Coy. 1st Regt.

Date of Death

Died 20 May 1916

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TANCREZ FARM CEMETERY

I. F. 1.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service South African
  • Additional Info Son of George E. and Lucy Watkins, of 7, Graham St., Kimberley, South Africa. Also served in German South West Africa and Egypt.
  • Personal Inscription A TRUE SON OF ENGLAND
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Buried or commemorated at

TANCREZ FARM CEMETERY
Hainaut Belgium
Number of casualties: 335
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