Friends of the Somme - Mid Ulster Branch  
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01/01/2022 His inscription reads: Comrades of the Great War (Moy Post) - In loving memory of our late comrade, Sergeant W A Watson, M.T. Royal Army Service Corps, who died 3rd August 1919.
01/01/2022 Lance Corporal Watson is buried in St James’ Church Of Ireland Churchyard in Moy, County Tyrone. He does not have a CWGC headstone, but is listed with them.
01/01/2022 Lance Corporal George Albert Watson died of tuberculosis in Moy on the 3rd August 1919. He was 25 years old.
01/01/2022 No medal card can be found, so this may imply he never served overseas.
01/01/2022 George was born in County Galway about 1894.
30/12/2015 Lance Corporal George Albert Watson served with the Royal Army Service Corps.
30/12/2015 Family: William Watson, Catherine Watson, William John Watson (born about 1892), George Albert Watson (born about 1894), Marian Elizabeth Watson (born about 1896)
30/12/2015 By 1911 the family had moved to Moy, Co Tyrone. George was still a scholar. His father worked as a land steward on the Roxborough Estate. The family lived in the only house in Clonbeg. Clonbeg was north of Roxborough Castle.
30/12/2015 The 1901 census shows George to a schoolboy, living with his mother in Castleblakeney, Galway.
30/12/2015 George Albert Watson was the youngest son of William and Catherine Watson.
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