Alexander Watt was the son of Joseph and Eliza Watt. He and his twin brother George were born on 22nd January 1897 in Drumglass, Dungannon. He was one of at least of 16 children. There were a remarkable four sets of twins. Alexander enlisted in Dungannon. Private Alexander Watt was serving with the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons (Service Squadron), attached to 2nd Regiment, North Irish Horse. He was killed in action at the Battle of the Somme on 3rd July 1916. Private Watt has no known grave and is commemorated at Thiepval Memorial.
The Thiepval Memorial will be found on the D73, next to the village of Thiepval, off the main Bapaume to Albert road (D929). Each year a major ceremony is held at the memorial on 1 July. The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. It is near the village of Thiepval, Picardy in France. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, Thiepval has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century"
