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Captain Harold Percy Watson
Born on 11 June 1884 and son of the founder of John Watson & Co, Stock and Station Agents in Bendigo, Victoria, Harold Watson joined the Royal Naval Air Service in 1915 as a Sub-Lieutenant. He was principally engaged in experimental work and some of the photos he took during his service, particularly during the 1917-18 period, are displayed below. (His own written comments are shown wherever possible).
His service involved flying from no less than 49 different aircraft ships before his transfer to the RAF. He became an instructor at the Eastbourne Aerodrome in UK. In 1917 he married Kathleen Hunter.
After the war he returned to Perricoota Station in NSW until in 1924, he purchased a large Victorian property near Echuca upon which he bred Shorthorn cattle and Southdown sheep. In 1928 his horse, "Altimeter" won the Adelaide Cup and he continued his interests in horse racing for his entire life.
He is survived by his daughter Mary, a pilot in her own right, and who, with her late husband, Dick Hagan, lived on their own property, Womboota, in Echuca raising and breeding cattle and sheep and continuing the tradition of horse racing as their interests.
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