John Robert WATSON

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Service Number:	2002
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	48th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Minlaton, South Australia, 22 June 1894
Home Town:	Minlaton, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 11 April 1917, aged 22 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Brentwood & District Great War Roll of Honor, Minlaton War Memorial WW1, The South Australian National War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

12 Aug 1916:	Involvement Private, 2002, 48th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: ''
12 Aug 1916:	Embarked Private, 2002, 48th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Adelaide

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