Rank: 
Private
Service number: 
1948
Unit: 
5th Pioneer Battalion
Location: 
Anzac Ridge, Polygon Wood, France
Birr X Road, Hooge, Belgium
Dickebusch New Military Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium
Hellfire Corner, Belgium
Menin Road, Ypres, Belgium
Date of Death: 
7 October 1917
Enquirer: 
Annie Watson
Eyewitness Reports: 
James John Dickinson
Charles Fausset
John Henry Reid
Karl Johann Alfred Nyhus
Packet number: 
4309
Date range: 
1917-1918
SLSA record number: 
SRG 76/1/4309
Private Patrick John Watson
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Submitted by Colleen Young (not verified) on Tue, 08/24/2021 - 13:11

Patrick John Watson is my great Uncle. I have an image you might wash to add to his record.

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