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WATSON, James
(Service number 73028)

Aliases
First Rank		Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	07/12/1891	Place of Birth	Greymouth

Enlistment Information

Date	11 May 1917	Age	25 years 5 months
Address at Enlistment	Boundary Street, Greymouth
Occupation	Bush feller
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Miss A. WATSON (sister), Mount Magdala Home, Christchurch
Religion	Roman Catholic
Medical Information	Height 5 feet 8 inches. Weight 140 lbs. Chest measurement 35½-38 inches. Complexion fair. Eyes grey. Hair brown. Sight - both eyes 6/6. Hearing good. Colour vision normal. Limbs well formed. Full an dperfect movement of all joints. Chest well formed. Heart and lungs normal. No illnesses. Free from hernia, varicocele, haemorrhoids, inveterate or contagious skin disease. Varicose veins- slight right leg. No vaccination mark. Good bodily and mental health. Class CII.

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	37th Reinforcements, C Company
Date	9 May 1918
Transport	Maunganui
Embarked From		Destination	Liverpool, Merseyside, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Western European
Service Medals	British War Medal; Victory Medal
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date	22 March 1919	Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

29 October 1918 reported wounded. 3 November 1918 Royal Vic Hospital, Matley, UK22 November 1918 transferred to Convelescence Hospital at Hornchurch; left Hornchurch 9 December 1918.

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	24 April 1950	Age	57 years
Place of Death	Timaru
Cause
Notices	Timaru Herald, 26 April 1950
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Services Section, Row 101, Plot 14
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

James WATSON, the son of James and Annie (née CATTLE) WATSON, was born on 7 December 1891 at Greymouth.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [27 April 2016]; N Z Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ Ref. AABK 18805 W5557 0119638) [28 April 2016]; Grey River Argus, 12 September 1912, Sun, 11 February 1919, Timaru herald, 30 April 1920 (Papers Past) [27 & 29 April 2016]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [29 April 2016]; Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [2014]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [2014]; NZ Electoral Rolls (ancestry.com.au) [2014]

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