The story
Name: R S WATSON
Rank: Temp Acting Petty Officer Airman
Official number: FX 90636
Role: Observer
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 771 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Tern, Twatt
Date of death: 1944-05-23
Aircraft: Martinet
Place of death: At sea
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: BINGLEY CEMETERY - Yorkshire
Commemoration details: Section O, Row 4, Grave 92
Family details: Son of Harry and Beatrice Watson, of Bingley, Yorkshire
Rank: Temp Acting Petty Officer Airman
Official number: FX 90636
Role: Observer
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 771 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Tern, Twatt
Date of death: 1944-05-23
Aircraft: Martinet
Place of death: At sea
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: BINGLEY CEMETERY - Yorkshire
Commemoration details: Section O, Row 4, Grave 92
Family details: Son of Harry and Beatrice Watson, of Bingley, Yorkshire
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