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Second Lieutenant WILLIAM VERNON CROWTHER WATSON

Regiment & Unit/Ship

West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 15 October 1917

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

POELCAPELLE BRITISH CEMETERY

IX. C. 5.

Belgium

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Country of Service United Kingdom
Additional Info Son of Polly Watson, of Swincliffe, Birkenshaw, Bradford, and the late Joseph Watson. Scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge.
Personal Inscription "THE LORD BLESS THEE AND KEEP THEE" NUMBERS 6.24

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