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GEORGE HENRY WATSON MRCS
East Riding of Yorkshire HU16 4BD
Hull Grammar School WW1 Memorial. Large bronze plaque, which lists 84 names now located at Tranby School, Anlaby, Hull
BORN HULL 1885. SON OF DR. GEORGE HENRY & KATE WATSON, OF 192, HALLGATE, COTTINGHAM, HULL.
EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL. PRIOR TO THE WAR HE WAS PRACTICING MEDICINE.
HE SERVED AS A CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS. HE HAD BEEN AT THE FRONT FOR NINETEEN MONTHS. WOUNDED ON HE SOMME ON 16/09/1916 AND DIED OF WOUNDS TWO DAYS LATER. HE WAS REPORTED WITH GUN SHOT WOUNDS TO THE ABDOMEN & SERIOUSLY ILL IN HOSPITAL (Hull Daily Mail, 20/09/1916).
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE RAMC MEMORIAL, WENLOCK BARRACKS, & LISTED ON THE COTTINGHAM ROLL OF HONOUR. HIS NAME IS ALSO RECORDED ON THE HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL WW1 MEMORIAL. THERE IS A BRASS PLAQUE TO HIM INSIDE THE CHURCH OF ST MARY'S THE VIRGIN CHURCH, COTTINGHAM.
HE IS BURIED AT DERNANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, SOMME, FRANCE.
Dernancourt 80300
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