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Military service
Service number:
687027
Age:
29
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
47th Bn.
Birth:
July 29, 1887
Death:
April 13, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Husband of Gertrude Winterbottom (formerly Watson), of Dryden, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Sergeant James Henry Watson
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War Memorial
Kamloops Cenotaph, Memorial Park, Battle Street and 2nd Avenue, Kamloops, British Columbia. Includes honour roll tablets listing 189 names for World War I and 92 names for World War II. Unveiled on May 24th, 1925. Inscribed: C.E.F. - NOR TIME NOR TIDE CAN EVER EFFACE THE MEMORY OF OUR GLORIOUS DEAD. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of April 28, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y120uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
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)
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Sergeant James Henry Watson
Digital gallery of
Sergeant James Henry Watson
Digital gallery of
Sergeant James Henry Watson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 346 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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