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Second Lieutenant JOHN WATSON

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Scots

17th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 27 April 1918

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HARPONVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

A. 2.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alexander Watson, of Branxton, Cornhill-on-Tweed; husband of Jessie Watson, of "St. Regulus," Church St., Haddington, East Lothian.
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Buried or commemorated at

HARPONVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 34
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