Watt Percy Bryden Lieut

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Surname: Watt;

Forename(s): Percy Bryden;

Initials: PB;

Rank: Lieut;

Previous Battalion: 11 of;

Previous Regiment: Gordon H;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 13 Bn;

How killed: KIA;

Where: France;

When killed: 14-Apr-1918;

Awarded: MID;

Other Data: Watsonians War Record - Portrait
see "with the MGC" (Russell) p 178 - "killed whilst sitting in a house, by a piece of shell from one which burst in a house on the opposite side of the road. The splinter which caused his death passed through the window and hit him in the head, death being instantanteous……"
Photo in Group (GS Archives, Folder 8);

Other Notes: WATT, Lieutenant, PERCY BRYDEN, Mentioned in Despatches, 13th Coy. Machine Gun Corps. Killed in action 14th April 1918. Age 24. Younger son of John and Agnes Georgina Inglis Watt, of 34, Mansionhouse Road, Edinburgh. Plot 1. Row A. Grave 10. Tannay British Cemetery, Thiennes - Nord, France.
MID: LG 30/5/1918;

END OF RECORD.

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