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- Q6115683 description "Recipient of the Military Cross".
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- Q6115683 abstract "Major John Bernard Robert Watson MC (14 January 1917 - 12 April 2011) was a British Army officer who was awarded a Military Cross for gallantry whilst serving with 13 Parachute Battalion in the Ardennes during the Second World War.Watson was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire. He enlisted in the Army in 1939 and served with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and the South Lancashire Regiment which later formed the 13th (Lancashire) Battalion The Parachute Regiment.Watson was a platoon commander on D-Day, 6 June 1944 and parachuted into Normandy and took part in the liberation of Ranville.He served in the Ardennes as a Company Commander and his Company on 3 January 1945 led the assault into the village of Bure, Belgium. Watson's Company from the launch of the attack came under heavy repeated attacks by enemy mortars, machine-guns and artillery and there were immediate casualties. He led the Company forward and when under attack organised the defences and drove the enemy from the part of the village his company had been tasked to clear. An extract from the citation for his Military Cross reads: " His conduct, energy and gallantry throughout were beyond praise, and without him the attack might well have failed. "Watson served in Operation Varsity: the air assault landing over the Rhine on 24 March 1945 and took part in the advance across Germany to the Baltic Sea.Following the Second World War he served in Palestine and was adjutant of the 1st Battalion The West Yorkshire Regiment in Austria and the Canal Zone. He served with the 2nd Parachute Battalion before retiring from the Army in 1958.He worked for J Lyons and Co to 1982. He was president of the Airborne Assault Normandy Trust. Watson was appointed a Chevalier of the Legion d'honneur in 2005. He was made an honorary citizen of Bure and Tellin in the Ardennes and of Ranville, Normandy.Watson had a leading role in organising the ceremonies which commemorate the anniversaries of the battle for Normandy, Ardennes campaign and the River Rhine crossing.He married Laura Eyre in 1938 with whom he was to have one son and four daughters.Major Jack Watson MC died on 12 April 2011.".
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- Q6115683 dateOfBirth "1917-01-14".
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- Q6115683 comment "Major John Bernard Robert Watson MC (14 January 1917 - 12 April 2011) was a British Army officer who was awarded a Military Cross for gallantry whilst serving with 13 Parachute Battalion in the Ardennes during the Second World War.Watson was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire.".
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