Watt, David George Melrose
Rank: Private
Regiment: "K" Company, Royal Army Medical Corps
Biography: Son of Rev. William Watt, minister, Strathdon ; born there, August 1896 ; educated at the Public School, Strathdon. He was prepared by his father for the University and was also for a short time at Gordon's College; he matriculated in April 1914, was a student in Medicine for little over a year, and showed his mental worth by taking good places in Botany and Physics. In November 1915 Watt enlisted in "K" Company, R.A.M.C., not that war, as such, had any attraction for him, but simply from a sense of duty. After six months' training at Aldershot, he was chosen, as a Medical student, to go to Cambridge for a three months' course in Bacteriology previous to his being sent abroad in the Sanitary Section of the R.A.M.C. This was never carried out, for he succumbed to serious illness, and died in hospital at Aldershot, 26 April 1916, at the early age of 19. Watt was a good student, of a lovable disposition, with a "saving sense of humour", and at the back of it there was a strong sense of duty carried with him from his boyhood spent among his native hills and glens.
Date of Death: 26 April 1916
Burial Details: Buried at Strathdon Parish Churchyard, Aberdeenshire.
Publication: Roll of Service, edited by Mabel Desborough Allardyce. Published 1921.
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