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Name: William Thomas (Bill) Watson ¹
Sex: M
Birth: 9 FEB 1891 in Bolsover Street, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia ²
Death: 6 JUL 1942 in Rozelle, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ^{3 4}
Burial: Mays Hill Cemetery, Section B, Row 6, Great Western Highway, Parramatta, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ⁵
Military: 1940 ³ ⁶
Person Id: I14369
Tree Id: 619131

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Parents

Father:

Henry Watson: Birth: 11 DEC 1859 in Cobbitty Paddock, New South Wales, Australia. Death: 8 JUN 1949 in Manly District Hospital, Manly, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Mother:

Emma (Topsy) Hitchcock: Birth: 6 FEB 1860 in 20 Tottenham Grove, West Hackney, Middlesex, England. Death: 27 JAN 1899 in Lockwood Street, Sherwood, Merrylands West, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Family
Marriage:

Married: Vera Margaret C Veitch on 1941 at Auburn, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Vera Margaret C Veitch: Birth: 1893 in Parramatta, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Death: 1955 in Liverpool, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sources

1.	Title: Irene Hazel Price - Personal Knowledge
2.	Title: QLD BDM Birth Index
3.	Title: Grave Inscription
4.	Title: NSW BDM Death Index
5.	Title: Robyn Elizabeth Allman nee Price - Personal Knowledge
6.	Title: Military Records

Notes

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William Thomas Watson was born on 9 Feb 1891 in Rockhampton, Queensland. His family moved to Merrylands, Sydney, in 1893.
William fought in World War I in the Battle of Fromelles, in the front line of the Western Front, Somme, France. He served in the 59th Battalion, 8th Reinforcement, 5th Division.
In World War II he served again in the 36th Battalion, 1st A.I.F. Infantry, WW2 Naval Ordinance Depot.
Bill was wounded in the war and was sent to France to recover. Six months after his marriage to Vera a piece of shrapnel which was overlooked when they operated dislodged and killed him.
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Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tuesday 7 July 1942, page 10
DEATHS.
WATSON - July 6, 1942, at hospital. William Thomas Watson of Auburn, beloved husband of Vera, aged 53 years. At rest.
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Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wednesday 8 July 1942, page 14
WATSON. - The Relatives and Friends of the late WILLIAM THOMAS WATSON, 36th Battalion, 1st A.I.F., of 117 Auburn Road, Auburn, are kindly invited to attend his Funeral, to leave my private mortuary Chapel, 2A Auburn Road, Auburn, THIS DAY, at 10.30 a.m., for the Western Road Cemetery, Parramatta.
REGINALD W. HILTON,
Funeral Director,
2A Auburn road,
Auburn. UX7830.
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