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Identity
Person No.
27883
Service No.
575
Last Name
First Name
Robert John
Initials
R J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
44
Military Service
Rank
Sergeant
Secondary Unit
"B" Coy.
Defence Force
UDF 22,700
Union Defence Force
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,685
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds, received in front the Butte de Warlencourt. On the 12th October, the 2nd and 4th S.A.I. attacked Snag and Tail Trenches. The assault died away because of machine guns nests, placed well back in prepared positions, which caught the attacking waves at long range. The two battalions, which had suffered heavily, were relieved by the 3rd S.A.I. during the night of the 12th-13th October
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Notes

Son of Thomas M. Watt, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., and Margaret Watt, of Hovingham, Yorks., England. Served in German West Africa, and in the South African Campaign. Wounded in Delville Wood in July 1916.

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