Name
Francis Shuldham Watson (DSO)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/05/1918
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Major
Royal Garrison Artillery
276th Siege Battery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Distinguished Service Order
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DOULLENS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION NO.2
I. A. 1.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Somerset County Roll of Honour
Pre War
Born on 2 May 1880 in Exeter, Devon son of Col. John Whaley Watson (Bombay Staff Corps) and Elizabeth Charlotte (Watts) Watson of The Cottage, Swainswick, Bath. Educated at Haileybury College 1894-96.
Wartime Service
Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant on 22 Nov 1899 and Lieutenant on 16 Feb 1901 and served in the South African Campaign 1899-1902. Entered France on 1 Mar 1917 and died of wounds on the Somme.
Additional Information
Brother of Captain Charles Reginald Watson who was killed in action on 6 Apr 1916 in Mesopotamia and of Major George Edmund Borlase Watson D.S.O., M.C. who was killed in action on 29 Aug 1918 on the Somme.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
