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Military service
Service number:
799896
Age:
29
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Division:
2nd Bn.
Birth:
February 16, 1889
Death:
October 15, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. H. 2.
Additional information
Son of William Gardner Watson and Sarah C. Watson; husband of Jennie Margaret Vansickle (formerly Watson), of 16, Duke St., St. Catharines, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Sergeant William Neil Watson
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Memorial
The Cenotaph at Memorial Park in St. Catharines, Ontario, was dedicated on August 7th, 1927 by the Prince of Wales (future King Edward VIII), and unveiled by Brigadier General W. B. M. King, C.M.G., D.S.O. The names of St. Catharines men who died as a result of their service during World War I are listed on two bronze tablets located at City Hall. -
Grave Marker
Submitted by 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Photo of WILLIAM NEIL WATSON
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Sergeant William Neil Watson
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Neil Watson
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Neil Watson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 519 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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