Service Details
Name:
 WATSON
Initials:
 J G F
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Rhodesia Regiment
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Unit 2:
 attd. 1st Bn. Nigeria Regiment, R.W.A.F.F.
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Date of Death:
 1940-07-30
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Age:
 24
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at the wells at Dobel. They climbed a steep bush-covered ridge on the right of the enemy line, rushed an Italian post and captured a machine-gun, but on trying to advance further, were met by heavy fire.
Additional
Information:
Son of Edwin L. Watson and Mabel Violet Watson; nephew of Florence Phillips, of Melsetter, Southern Rhodesia.
Commemoration
Country:
 Kenya
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Cemetery:
 NAIROBI WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 2. H. 21.

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