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The Roll lists his address as 180 Belsize Avenue.
(CWGC records that Lance Corporal John Watson, regimental number 128583, died aged 22 on 10/6/1918 serving in 'F' Special Company of the Royal Engineers, and is buried in grave III.C.14 at Fosse No10 Communal Cemetery Extension at Sains en Gohelle in France. They record him as the son of Sarah Jane Watson of Ramsey Road, St Ives, Hunts.
Soldiers Died in the Great War records John as a native of Ely who was living in Peterborough when he enlisted at Sheffield, and that he served in the Yorkshire Light Infantry under regimental number 27414 before joining the Royal Engineers. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that John died on 10/6/1918, and that his mother Sarah Jane was his legatee.
On the 1911 census John had been living with his mother Sarah Jane at 13 London Street, Whittlesey; on the 1901 census he had been living with his parents Sarah and George at Potters Lane in Ely. When his death was announced in the Peterborough Advertiser on 27/7/1918 he was reported to have joined the Army in February 1916).