After several years of failing health, Mr. G. W. Watson, an old resident of Shanghai, passed away at the General Hospital yesterday morning at the age of 66 years, as ihe result of a stroke.
Mr. Watson came to China im 1898 as a gunner in the 25th Regt, Royal Artillery, Hongkong, which he left to join the Navy Yard and, afterwards, the Kowloon Godown Ca, in a clerical capacity. After ten years' residence in Hongkong he came to Shanghai and for the next 22 years was on the staff of the "North-China Daily News & Herald, Ltd," latterly as an accountant. He retired in 1929.
During his career in the Army, Mr. Watson distinguished himself as a wrestler and was the holder of several championships; in Shanghai he was for some years in the Artillery, 5.Y.C., and will be remembered by many old gunners of that Unit He leaves a widow, a son and two grandchildren in Shanghai, to whom the sympathy of his many friends will be extended in their bereavement
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