Edwin Leslie Watts
Service number
755917
Military unit
20 Sqdn Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Address
Unknown
Date of birth
Date of death
13 Apr 1943 (22 years old)
Place of birth
Leicester
Employment, education or hobbies
Edwin Watts was educated at Torquay and Kilburn Grammar Schools later moving to Heny Mellish School, Nottingham. He was employed by Mesrs Armstrong Whitworth Ltd of Coventry as an apprentice aeronautical engineer and was given dispensation to join the RAF for the war's duartion.
Source: Nottingham Evening Post 31/3/1944
- Family History
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Family history
Edwin Lesley Watts was the only child of Ernest Edwin Percy and Elizabeth Watts of 42, Harrow Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham. Ernest and Elizabeth Watts later moved to Paignton, Devon.
Military history
RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL Panel 134.
Operational with Coastal Command for 3 years, Watts was posted missing in West Africa 13/4/1943.
Source: Nottingham Evening Post 31/3/1944
Extra information
Unknown
Photographs
Ernest Leslie Watts
Nottingham Evening Post 31/3/1944