Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Addition to gravestone
- District
- Holderness
- Town
- Hedon
- County
- Humberside
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 35064
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Current location
Hedon Cemetery
Hedon
Holderness
Humberside
England
OS Grid Ref: TA 18463 28777
Denomination: Undefined
- Inscription
- (...) ALSO/ WM EDWARD PRIOR WATSON/ THEIR ONLY SON/ B. 25TH MARCH 1920/ CAPTAIN IN THE SOMERSET L.I./ KILLED IN ACTION/ IN ITALY/ 5TH APRIL 1944/ (...)/ ALSO/ WILLIAM WATSON/ COLONEL SOMERSET REGT. L.I./ KILLED IN ACTION FRANCE/ B. 17TH JUNE 1880/ D. 3RD MAY 1917/ (...)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Watson, William Edward Prior
See details - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: no
Information shown: Rank, forename, surname, regiment, manner of death, place of death, date of birth, date of death, additional
Order of information: Undefined - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: no
Information shown: Forename, surname, date of birth, rank, regiment, manner of death, place of death, date of death, additional
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Memorial
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Private
- Reference
- Yorkshire Heroes, Vol I: A Journey from Hull to Withernsea Around Hornsea and Back to Hull Again, Malcolm Mann (1996), p. 418.
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