Private Albert Watson

Army Number: 200796 formerly 2992

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Henry and Eliza Ann Watson, of 20, Hopping Hill, Milford, Derby.

Went to France on 25th June 1915. Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 25, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.