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Private ERNEST FRANCIS HALL WATKINS

Service Number: 3721
Regiment & Unit/Ship

London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)

1st/15th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 24 December 1916

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WOODS CEMETERY

III. B. 13.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 140th Trench Mortar Bty
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Lt. and Mrs. Watkins, of 145, Whipps Goss Rd., Leytonstone, London. Native of Aldershot.
  • Personal Inscription HE BORE THE CROSS AND WON A CROWN
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Buried or commemorated at

WOODS CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 321
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