The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Second Lieutenant D H Watts

Photograph by "Woose"

Second Lieutenant Dudley Haldane WATTS, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, death presumed on or after, 26th September 1915, age 26.

Born Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire, son of William Arthur Albert & Lucy Jane Watts, West Garth, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire.

1911 Census - 20 Blandford Road, St Albans - Dudley Haldane Watts, Head, (boarder crossed out), age 21, single, Law Student, Solicitors & Articled Clerk, born Hemingford Grey, near St Ives, Huntingdonshire

Previously Inns of Court, Officer Training Corps.

7th August 1914, Hertford, enlisted 1st Battalion, Herfordshire Regiment, Service No.2499, age 25. Resided 20 Blandford Road, St Albans. Formerly Solicitor.

18th November 1914, Commissioned; 31st August 1915, posted BEF.

4th April 1917, Probate - Dudley Haldane Watts, West Garth, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, Second Lieutenant 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, died on or since 26th September 1915, in France. Probate London 4th April to Lucy Watts, widow. Effects £144 2s 5d.

Commemorated at Loos Memorial, Panel 95 to 97, France.

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