After nearly three years of campaigning in the India - Burma theatre of war Lieut. Andrew Page Watson, of the Lancashire Fusiliers, recently returned to this country, and during the past week has visited Wallasey with his wife to see his mother and visit old friends.
Lieut. Watson sustained a severe wound when hit by an explosive bullet in the right upper arm during the grim battle at Kohima last April, one of the 14th Army's fiercest encounters with the Japs. He has come home to England for further treatment.
Prior to his call-up in the first batch of Militia in July, 1939, Lieut. Watson had shown himself as an athlete of great promise. Amongst his performances were 2nd in the Wallasey Mile Championship and 3rd in the Wallasey Cross-Country Championship in 1939, and he was also a leading member of the successful Wallasey Athletic Club junior team which won, in addition to other awards, the Liverpool & District Junior Cross-Country Championship in 1939. He was assistant secretary of the Wallasey Athletic Club for two years before the war and has retained his keen, interest in athletics.
Commissioned early in 1940 Lieut. Watson received the George Medal for attempting to rescue an R.A.F. pilot whose plane had been forced down into the English Channel.
He was married in November, 1911, to Miss Marianne Ethel Hopkinson, of Sway, Hants., and they have a little daughter aged two who now sees her daddy for the first time.
Lieut. Watson is the only child of the late Mr. A. S. & Mrs. Watson of Wallasey and was educated at Wallasey Grammar School.
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Source - Wallasey News - Saturday, 20/01/1945
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