P76 Trio: 1914/15 Star, British War and Victory Medal all correctly impressed to 2647 PTE E. C. WATSON 15/BN AIF.

P76 Trio: 1914/15 Star, British War and Victory Medal all correctly impressed to 2647 PTE E. C. WATSON 15/BN AIF.

EMB: 18^th October 1915 and taken on strength of 15^th Battallion at Gallipoli

Edgar Charles Watson was reported missing in action in France on the 9^th August 1916

An enquiry into his whereabouts in May 1917 officially confirmed that he was Killed in action Villers-Bretonneux, France 9^th August 1916

A Red Cross file also exists which gives information reportedly from a letter by General Birdwood himself to his mother and states that Private Watson was with his battalion during the attack on the night of 8^th August 1916 N. W. of Pozieres. He goes on to say that he was last seen the next day on August 9^th in the trench wounded by shell fire in the shoulder.

A Letter in his file from a Canadian Soldier J. Shorrock 5^th Field Ambulance 2^nd Canadian Division gives the following further insight confirming his death;

“It is with deep sympathy I write to you this letter and tell you that I have mailed separately a pocket bible I found on the corpse of one who was no doubt near and dear to you,

He lies buried past what was once the enemy’s front line so that you will know he died bravely.”

Near UNC $1150