The Cricket Club memorial Unveiling programme states:
2nd Lieut. B. Watson
Enlisted in the Yorkshire Hussars in May, 1915, and was later attached to the Scots Greys. Proceeding to France in June, 1916, he was wounded in the back, and spent some time in Stoke War Hospital. He returned to France in March, 1917, and was later sent home to train for a Commission. Gazetted in June, 1918, to the Northumberland Fusiliers, he went again to France in July, and was killed by shellfire on October 24th of the same year.
Benjamin Alexander Watson is remembered in Stockton on S138.18b page 61, S138.29, S138.33 and S138.36
