Lance Corporal Reginald Edwin Watt
- Rank
- Lance Corporal
- Service number
- 5446
- Unit
- 28 Battalion
- Cause of death
- Killed in Action
- Place of death
- Noreuil, France
- Date of death
- 3 May 1917
- Age
- 27
- Plaque number
- M232
- Co-located plaques
- M232A - PTE Douglas Watt
- Dedicated by
- Family on 16 November 2019
- More information
Biography presented during plaque dedication:
Lance Corporal Reginald Edwin Watt was born in 1890 at Ballarat, Victoria to Edwin and Sophia Watt. There were three other sons and a sister in the family.
One of the brothers, Douglas, also has a plaque in the park which is located next to Reginald’s. Tennyson and Edwin were the other brothers and they served with 14 Light Horse and returned to Australia at wars end.
In March 1902 the family moved to Kalgoorlie Western Australia, where Edwin worked as a metallurgist. The boys attended state school at Boulder, Western Australia.
Reginald never married and was an accountant in Wickepin from where he enlisted in February 1916. After training he embarked on HMAT Miltiades at Fremantle in August, arriving in Plymouth in September 1916 .
Reginald trained at Rollestone with 7 Training Battalion before embarking at Folkestone on SS Henrietta bound for France. Further training was carried out at 2 Base Camp before joining 28 Battalion in January 1917.
He was wounded in March but returned to duty after a few days and in April was promoted to Lance Corporal.
Lance Corporal Reginald Edwin Watt, service number 5446 of 28 Battalion, was killed in action on 3 May 1917 at Noreuil, France. He was 27 years of age.
He has no known grave and is commemorated at the Australian National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux.
His plaque is placed alongside his brother Trooper Douglas Kendall Watt, of 10 Light Horse.