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Lieutenant EDWIN HAMER WATSON

Service Number: 186237
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

Date of Death

Died 25 April 1945

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MADRAS WAR CEMETERY, CHENNAI

8. A. 8.

India

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Sybil Watson, of Lytham, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription YOUR MEMORY WILL LIVE FOR EVER. MUMMY
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Buried or commemorated at

MADRAS WAR CEMETERY, CHENNAI
India
Number of casualties: 860
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