Donald John Grange Watkinson

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Lieutenant Donald John Grange Watkinson, (3 May, 1899 – 10 January, 1924) served in the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

In 1918, Midshipman Watkinson served in the battleships Dreadnought and Warspite.

Watkinson was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 15 July, 1921.

Watkinson died aboard L 24 when she was lost with all hands following a collision with battleship Resolution eleven miles off Portland Bill on 10 January, 1924. He is entombed within the submarine at thirty fathoms depth.[1][2]

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ "British Naval Disaster." The Times (London, England), 11 Jan. 1924, p. 10.
  2. ↑ "The Dead In L24." The Times (London, England), 18 Jan. 1924, p. 9.

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