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Allan WATT

Regimental number3500
Place of birthTyrell Downs, Victoria
SchoolNorthcote State School, Victoria
ReligionPresbyterian
OccupationBookbinder
Address32 Bastings Street, Northcote, Victoria
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation21
Height5' 5"
Weight131 lbs
Next of kinFather, C H Watt, 32 Bastings Street, Northcote, Victoria
Previous military serviceNil
Enlistment date15 July 1915
Place of enlistmentMelbourne, Victoria
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name7th Battalion, 11th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/24/3
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A71 Nestor on 11 October 1915
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll59th Battalion
FateKilled in Action 19 July 1916
Place of death or woundingFromelles, France
Age at death22
Place of burialNo known grave
Commemoration detailsV.C. Corner Australian Cemetery Memorial, Fromelles, France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
169
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Charles Harbord and Mary Sophia WATT
Other details

War service: Egypt, Western Front

Taken on strength, 7th Bn, Tel el Kebir, 7 January 1916.

Transferred to 59th Bn, and taken on strength, Tel el Kebir, 24 February 1916.

Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 18 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 29 June 1916.

Posted missing, 19 July 1916.

Court of Enquiry, held in the field, 29 August 1917, pronounced fate as 'Killed in Action, 19 July 1916'.

Handwritten note on Form B103: 'Presume Buried In No Man's Land approx 5J90 43 to 5K02.5.1 Sheet Hazebrouck 5A'.

Statement, Red Cross File No 2871202, 2884 Sergeant H.G. PRICE, 58th Bn, 12 May 1919: 'Watt went over with the Btn. at Fleur Baix (sic) on 19th July 16. The Btn. went over in the afternoon and suffered a great many casualties. We did not take the ground and at Roll Call Watt was Missing (sic). The ground was not taken at that time. So far as I know he was left in German Territory.'

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
SourcesNAA: B2455, WATT Allan
Red Cross file 2871202

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