Herbert Watts

Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Edward Watts KCB KCMG (1858 - 15 October 1934) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding 7th Division during World War I.

Military career
Educated at The King's School, Peterborough and at Tours, Watts was commissioneed into the 14th Regiment of Foot in 1880 and commanded the 2nd Battalion in 1904. Watts commanded No. 9 District in Eastern Command from 1910. He also served in World War I as General Officer Commanding 7th Division from September 1915 and then for a few days in July 1916 as General Officer Commanding 38th (Welsh) Division - under Watts, the 38th division successfully took its objective, Mametz Wood, though with severe losses; within a week, Watts was back in command of 7th Division. In February 1917 he became General Officer Commanding the XIX Corps.

He unveiled the War Memorial at Mitcham in Surrey in 1920.

Family
In 1896 he married Elizabeth Alice Helena Daly.