Edward Watson

Born 7.06.1885     Place Warsaw, Poland     Ethnic origin Pole?     Religion Roman Catholic

Father -     Mother Watson N.

Residence before arrival at Australia served in the Russian Infantry for 3 years

Arrived at Australia

            from Poland     on 15.04.1911     per      disembarked at Fremantle, WA

Residence before enlistment Armadale, Kalgoorlie, Mornington, Perth WA

Occupation plumber (former trade), butcher

Service

service number 873     enlisted 14.09.1914     POE Blackboy Hill, WA

unit 12th Battalion       rank Private

place Gallipoli, 1915; Western Front, 1916       casualties WIA 1915, 1916

final fate RTA 13.02.1917      discharged 28.09.1917

Naturalisation 1914

Materials naturalisation (NAA)

digitised service records (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

The very first contingent [...] — this First Fleet of the new Australian nationhood — left Australian waters in early November 1914 with at least 12 Russians: the Finns Baer and Hiltunen, the ethnic Russians Arn, Kamishansky, Sast and Sindeeff, the Polish-born Markowicz and Watson, the Jews Zander and Levene, and the Russian-born Englishmen Ball and Dyson.

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