Roy Cameron Watson

Forenames

Roy Cameron AWMM

Surname

Watson AWMM

Service number

• WWI 2/1690 AWMM
• WWI 2/79 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

9 Feb 1894 AWMM

Address before enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM 55 Majoribanks Street, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 Robert George Watson (father), 17 Washington Road, Nelson, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 15 Aug 1914 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• Aug 1914 AWMM Capture of Samoa, WW1 AWMM
• 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM
• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

• WWI 2/1690 AWMM
• WWI 2/79 AWMM

Medals and Awards

• 1914-1915 Star AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 08 Aug 1914 AWMM
Age  20 AWMM

Embarkation details

• WW1 HMNZT 1 or HMNZT 2 AWMM Vessel was Moeraki or Monowai AWMM Gunner/Military AWMM New Zealand Field Artillery AWMM Samoan Advance Party AWMM
• WW1 HMNZT 24 or HMNZT 25 or HMNZT 26 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima AWMM 5th Reinforcements AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

Medical notes

• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
• Hair colour, WWI AWMM
  dark medium AWMM
• Eye colour, WWI AWMM
  blue AWMM
• Height, WWI AWMM
  5' 9" AWMM
• Weight, WWI AWMM
  160 lb AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Gunner/Military AWMM
New Zealand Field Artillery, 6th (Howitzer) Battery AWMM

Death

14 Dec 1915 AWMM
Age  21 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

• Chunuk Bair (New Zealand) Memorial, Chunuk Bair Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey AWMM
• Nelson Cenotaph, Anzac Park, Nelson
  Public - Peter - Researcher - 30 October 2018 - on site

Related objects

External links

• Military Personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22016916
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/680506/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/680506
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Page No: 761
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 2: Includes portrait
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Byrne, J.R. (1922). New Zealand Artillery in the Field, 1914 - 18. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• HMNZT 1. Pull-thro' : with which is incorporated The Noumea nightmare, the Suva sendoff, and Samoa sun : the unofficial organ of the Advance Party of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force, Apia, Samoa. [Apia, Samoa] : Literary Committee of the Advance Party of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1914-