WATT, Oscar
| Service Number: | 673 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 February 1915, Liverpool |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 18th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia, 24 November 1892 |
| Home Town: | Waverley, Waverley, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Waverley Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, 27 August 1915, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
World War 1 Service
| 6 Feb 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 673, 18th Infantry Battalion, Liverpool | |
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| 25 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 673, 18th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 673, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Sydney | |
| 22 Aug 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 673, 18th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Landed at Gallipoli | |
| 27 Aug 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 673, 18th Infantry Battalion, The August Offensive - Lone Pine, Suvla Bay, Sari Bair, The Nek and Hill 60 - Gallipoli |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Helen digan
Private P. Stanford,1341, D Coy, 18th Battalion provided the following re Private Watt:
Was knocked down whilst standing alongside the informant [Private Watt] in the trench on a Friday night in August. Shortly after informant was himself rendered unconscious through the explosion of another bomb and has no knowledge whatsoever whether Watt was killed, wounded or what became of him.
Private E. Balfour, 18th Battalion, AIF provided the following statement regarding Private Watt while in 1st Australian General Hospital in Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt:
This man [Private Watt], who was a mate of informant [Private Balfour], was missed after the charge in August. Acting on informaiton received from an English soldier, who, while scouting, found the body of Lieutenant Marjeson, who was in the same charge as the man in question, and like him was posted as "Missing", and brought back his disc to the 18th Battalion, Lieutenant Sadler took out a party of men, and found a number of bodies from which the discs were removed and by now should be at headquarters. Probably many of the missing men will now be accounted for.
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