WATSON, Albert Victor
| Service Number: | 1730 |
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| Enlisted: | 31 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Casterton, Victoria, Australia, 11 June 1871 |
| Home Town: | Boulder, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Fremantle, Western Australia, 29 November 1932, aged 61 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Boulder St George's Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 31 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1730, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
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| 17 Apr 1916: | Involvement Private, 1730, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Apr 1916: | Embarked Private, 1730, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Aeneas, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Watson enlisted at the age of 43. He was married to Charlotte Martha and worked as a miner in the Kalgoorlie goldfields. He was captured at Mouquet Farm, France, on 3 September 1916 and held as a POW in Germany. While in hospital with rheumatism at the POW camp at Nurnberg, Germany he wrote to the Australian Red Cross in London on 21 August 1918 "Received parcel with sincerest thanks. It came while in hospital and is a treat for some 50 comrades whom I have shared with and who have just been captured, some very severely wounded." Pte Watson was repatriated to England on 21 December 1918 and arrived back in Australia on 10 April 1919.
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