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Private WILLIAM YOUNG WATSON

Service Number: 1647
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Infantry, A.I.F.

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 20 September 1918

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DOINGT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

I. E. 10.

France

  • Country of Service Australian
  • Awards Military Medal
  • Additional Info Son of George Henry and Margaret Margery Watson, of Renwicktown, New Zealand.
  • Personal Inscription HE SLEEPS 'NEATH A FOREIGN SKY FAR FROM THOSE WHO LOVE HIM
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Buried or commemorated at

DOINGT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme France
Number of casualties: 419
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