Name
Ernest Lancelot Watson
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/09/1915
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sapper
1072
Royal Engineers
3rd London Field Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
NORTH MAROC INTERCOMMUNAL CEMETERY
6
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Albans Citizens Memorial, Town Hall (old) Memorial, St Albans, Holywell Hill - Street Memorial, St Albans, Trinity United Reformed Church, St Albans, Spicer Street Independent Church Memorial, St Albans
Pre War
Son of Ernest and Louisa Ann Watson, of Holywell Hill, St. Albans, Herts. His father was a councillor.
Address given as 26 Holywell Hill, St Albans.
Wartime Service
Killed in action.
It was reported that he died from a sniper's bullet while in the trenches, and that the same bullet killed a comrade who was beside him.
Acknowledgments
Gareth Hughes
