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James Watt

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James Pension Record (image courtesy of Gary Thomson)

Military Information

  • Date of enlistment:
  • Place of enlistment:
  • Service no: 640503
  • Rank: Bombardier
  • Service Occupation:
  • Awards:
  • Regiment/Service: Royal Field Artillery
  • Unit/Ship: 321st Brigade, 'A' Battery
  • Place of Death: Kings Cross Hospital, Dundee
  • Age at Death: 42
  • Date of Death: 23.09.1919
  • Burial Country: Scotland
  • Cemetery: Dundee Eastern Necropolis
  • Grave/Mem Ref no: LL.5.825.

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth:
  • Place of Birth:
  • Address: 10 Court St, Dundee
  • Occupation:
  • Mother:

    Ann Clark Watt

  • Father:

    George Watt

  • Siblings:
  • Spouse:

    Mary Ann Alexander Tyne McCabe (formally Watt) 10 Court St, Dundee

  • Children:

More about James Watt

For reasons unknown this man is not listed on the original Dundee Roll of Honour.

James Watt   640503   Royal Field Artillery

WATT—At King’s Cross Hospital, on 23rd September, James Watt, ages 43, beloved husband of Mary Ann Tyrie or Watt, both late of Forfar.

Mrs James Watt desires to thank the many kind friends for their expressions of sympathy and floral tributes in their sore bereavement; also the members and bandmaster of T.F.A., and the members and bandmaster of the Dundee Trades Band, for their kind token of respect. —At 10 Court Street, Dundee.

Dundee People’s Journal 4th October 1919

Information supplied by Gary Thomson, further information kindly supplied by Michael Caldwell

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