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Military service
Service number:
53977
Age:
24
Rank:
Company Sergeant Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
18th Bn.
Birth:
October 2, 1891
Death:
September 15, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of the late Eli and Esther Watts.
Digital gallery of Company Sergeant Major Eli Watts
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Newspaper Clipping
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Galt War Memorial
The Cambridge (Galt) War Memorial, Queen's Square, Cambridge, Ontario. Circa 1930. Frances Loring and William Lyon Somerville.<P> Inscribed:"TO THEM ALL HONOUR / GUARD YE THEIR VICTORY / 1914-1918 / 1939-1945 / 1950-1953." -
Close-up of Galt War Memorial
Detail of the Cambridge (Galt) War Memorial. -
Photo of Eli Watts
Serg't Maj. Eli Watts, 18th Batt. [Symbol of cross] Somme Sept. 15 1916. A portrait by the U.S.A. Studios, London. -
Photo of Eli Watts
In memory of the men and women from the Waterloo area who went to war and did not come home. From the booklet, Peace Souvenir – Activities of Waterloo County in the Great War 1914 – 1918. From the Toronto Public Library collection. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Waterloo Memorial Booklet
In memory of the men and women from the Waterloo area who went to war and did not come home. From the booklet, Peace Souvenir – Activities of Waterloo County in the Great War 1914 – 1918. From the Toronto Public Library collection. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Letter
Watts' letter was published in his hometown newspaper. Cheery Letters From Boys of Eighteenth Battalion Galt Daily Reporter. May 27, 1915 Page 12. Contributed by E.Edwards www.18thbattalioncef.wordpress.com -
Photo of ELI WATTS
From the Kitchener Public Library collection of World War One Soldier Information Cards, Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major Eli Watts
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major Eli Watts
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major Eli Watts
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major Eli Watts
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major Eli Watts
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major Eli Watts
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major Eli Watts
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major Eli Watts
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major Eli Watts
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 179 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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