Flight Lt AWK Watson
Alfred William Knox Watson
- Rank
- Flight Lt
- Squadron
- No 202 Squadron
- School
- SATS General Botha
- Born
- 1915
- Fate
- Killed in action, 5 June 1941
- In the book
- Pages 115, 117
From the book
The Airmen who started at Sea
No 210 Squadron Sunderland on convoy escort duty. This Consolidated Catalina, a Coastal Command “OTU” training aircraft at the time was later transferred to No 210 Squadron. Ainslie’s “General Botha” contemporary Flight Lt AWK Watson lost his life in a No 202 Squadron Catalina a year later.
The Airmen who started at Sea
Almost a year after Ainslie and his crew were lost at sea, No 202 Squadron RAF Coastal Command Catalina pilot Flight Lt AWK Watson and his 7-man crew went “Missing” between Devon and Gibraltar during on an operation on June 5th, 1941. Born in 1915, Alfred William Knox Watson attended school in Eshowe, joined the “General Botha” as Cadet No 444 at the same time as A S Ainslie in 1929 and commissioned in 1938.