Name
Oswald Halley Watson
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/09/1917
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
London Regiment (Post Office Rifles)
2nd/8th (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 54.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 6 Jan 1886 son of William Colling and Eveline (Halley) Watson of 10 Lyndhurst Road, Hampstead, London.
Educated at Haileybury College 1899-1905, he became a bank clerk and shared accommodation with Clement Atlee (later Prime Minister) in 1911 in Stepney.
Wartime Service
Formerly Private 37473 8th London Regiment, he obtained his commission 2nd Lieutenant 8th London Regiment and was killed in action.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
