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Military service
Service number:
159208
Age:
26
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
18th Bn.
Birth:
April 4, 1891
Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 15, 1915
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
April 23, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
V. G. 18.
Additional information
Son of George and Emily Watts, of 466, Main Street East, Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private George Albert Watts
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Attestation papers
Attestation Paper, page 1. -
Attestation papers
Attestation Paper, page 2. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of Charles Alfred Watts
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of George Watts
Private George Albert Watts, reg. no. 159208. Contributed to the 18th Battalion Facebook Group by Jennifer Thompson-Johnson. Contributed by E.Edwards www.18thbattalioncef.wordpress.com -
Photo of Charles Alfred Watts
George Watts's brother Charles who was born April 2, 1893. He enlisted with the 68th Battalion on November 2, 1915 in Weyburn, Saskatchewan. He was discharged and then reenlisted October 13, 1917 in Toronto, Ontario. After the war, Charles returned home and eventually married Eliza Quinn of York on December 30, 1918. -
Group Photo
His brother Charles Watts returned home after the War and eventually married Eliza Quinn of York on December 30, 1918. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private George Albert Watts
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 346 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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