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Surname: WATTS
Forename(s): William Francis Muther
Place of Birth: Settle, Yorkshire
Service No: 180330
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Canadian Infantry
Battalion / Unit: No.1 Coy 29th Battalion (Vancouver)
Division: 2nd Canadian Division
Age: 35
Date of Death: 1916-09-26
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: II. D. 12.
CWGC Cemetery: ADANAC MILITARY CEMETERY, MIRAUMONT
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: GIGGLESWICK SCHOOL, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
William Francis (Frank) Muther Watts (born 20 January 1881) was the son of William Marshall and Ida Harriette Hartley Watts, formerly Tamblyn, née Massey. William, senior, was born at Boston, Lincolnshire and Ida at Haldimand, Ontario, Canada.
1881 Settle, Yorkshire Census: Prospect Terrace - William F.M. Watts, aged 2 months, born Settle, Yorkshire, son of William Marshall and Ida Watts.
1891 Settle, Yorkshire Census: 7, Prospect Terrace - William F.M. Watts, aged 10 years, born Settle, son of William M. and Ida Watts.
Canadian service records: http://www.baclac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/first-world-war-1914-1918-cef
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
GIGGLESWICK
WATTS. W. F. M., aged 35, Canadian Expeditionary Force, son of Dr. W.M. Watts, of ‘Shirley’, Venner Road, Sydenham, and formerly Science Master at Giggleswick Grammar School, killed in action in France, Sept. 26, 1916, aged 35.
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Private William Francis Muther WATTS
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Canadian Infantry
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 2nd Canadian Division
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Page from the First World War ‘Book of Remembrance’: Private Frank [William Francis Muther] Watts
Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial (Kindly supplied by Shirley Penman, Clitheroe)
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24 November 1916
SETTLE
Dr. and Mrs. Watts’ Yorkshire friends will be sorry to hear that their son Frank is reported ‘missing’ since September 26th. (The date of the fighting at Thiepval and Combles). He belonged to the 2nd Canadian Division. Their son-in-law, Mr. H. Fauvet Fieth, is well and working hard ‘Somewhere in France’ as a driver in the Heavy Artillery Motor Transport. Dr. Watts will be remembered as Science Master for over 30 years at Giggleswick Grammar School.
01 December 1916
WATTS – Killed in action in France on September 26th 1916, Pte. William Francis Watts, of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, aged 35, son of Dr. W. Marshall Watts, of ‘Shirley,’ Venner Road, Sydenham.
01 December 1916
SETTLE – PRIVATE W. F. M. WATTS REPORTED KILLED
Last week we recorded the fact that Pte. W. F. M. Watts, 29th Battalion, 2nd Division Canadian Expeditionary Force, was reported missing as from September 26th last. This week a letter has been received from the Company Officer stating that Private Watts was undoubtedly killed on the date mentioned, although none of the members of his Company (‘A’) know anything of the circumstances of his death. The deceased was a son of Dr. Watts, for 30 years science master at Giggleswick School, and the sympathy of their Yorkshire friends will go out to them in their painfully sad bereavement. If this notice should come to the attention of any member of the deceased soldier’ company who could tell anything of the circumstances under which he died, they would be very acceptable. The parents’ address is ‘Shirley’, Venner Road, Sydenham, and his sister’s address, Mrs. Fieth, Ingleboro, Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
28 September 1917
WATTS – In ever loving memory of our dear boy, William Francis Watts (Frank), Private, Canadian Victoria Fusiliers, who went over at Courcelette, September 26th 1916, and never returned.
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