Name
George Robert Watson
15/01/1888
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/04/1918
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
30442
The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL
Panel 7.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial to the missing in Belgium..
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Aldenham memorials.
Pre War
George Robert Watson was born on 15 January 1888, in Aldenham, Herts, son of William Alfred (a Carpenter) and Jane Ann (nee Tucker) Watson.
Baptised on 25 September 1888, in the Parish Church Aldenham, Herts.
1891 Census records George aged 3, living with his parents, brothers William (11), Paris (5) and sister Bessie (8) at Aldenham Abby Park, Otterspool Lane, Aldenham, Herts.
By 1901 the family had moved to 18, Broxbourne Road, Cann Hall, West Ham, London/Essex, George was working as a Shop Boy.
1911 Census records George, aged 25, single, and back in Hertfordshire, living and working at, Putteridge Park, Offley, Herts, as a Domestic Footman.
Wartime Service
George enlisted at Luton, Beds, posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment, with the service number 19488, later posted to The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment with the service number 30442.
George arrived in France on 30 August 1915, and served on the Western Front, he was Killed in Action on 10 April 1918, he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial to the missing in Belgium.
Additional Information
His father William received his effects of £30-10s-8d, Pay Owing and his War Gratuity.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
