William Gladstone Watson

No tribunal or other reports about this man found in the Oldham newspapers.

He has an entry on the Pearce List.
The Pearce List of over 17500 WW1 Conscientious Objectors can be found on the Imperial War Museum's website.

He was in Wormwood Scrubs serving his first sentence in May 1919. He is named on the No-Conscription Fellowship's list of "Men still in the hands of the Military and Civil Authorities, 9 May1919."

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Born Saddleworth, 12 November 1898
Died Saddleworth, March quarter 1940

1911 census :
P.O. Greenfield [Post Office, Chew Valley Road, Greenfield, Saddleworth]
Single, age 12, with parents, an older brother and sister and a younger sister.
Occ. None recorded

1939 register :
2 Cottage, Diggle Mill, Diggle, Saddleworth
Single, living alone
Occ: Foreign correspondent

No further information about this occupation has been found so far.

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Diggle is a small village in Saddleworth situated on a main railway line. Trains stopped at its station until 1968 when it was closed. Before that, journeys to Manchester and Liverpool in one direction or Huddersfield, Leeds and Newcastle in the other could be made from the village.

Contributed by Dorothy Bintley