Eric Wattenbach

Rifleman Eric Wattenbach, who served as Eric Watts, was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1892, in Hendon, the son of German-born Oscar and Marie Charlotte Wattenbach (née Fourdin), of Kentish Town. At the time of the 1911 Census, Wattenbach was working as a clerk to his father, an agent of surgical instruments, while living with his family at 'The Limes', Netherley Road.
Aged 24, Wattenbach died on 16 August 1916, during the Somme Offensive, while serving on the Western Front with the 2/21st (County of London) Battalion (First Surrey Rifles), The London Regiment.
He is buried in Louez Military Cemetery.
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Wattenbach, Eric, cwgc.org. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
Category:1892 births
Category:1916 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of German descent
Category:Buried in France
Category:Rifleman