Herbert Watts
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Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Edward Watts was a British Army officer who commanded 7th Division and later XIX Corps during the First World War.
Portrait of Watts, 1917, by Francis Dodd
King George V inspects American soldiers of the 108th Regiment, with the 27th Division, 6 August 1918. From left to right: Brigadier General McMullen, Chief of Staff, XIX British Corps; aide-de-camp to Lieutenant General Sir Herbert Watt GOC XIX Corps; Lieutenant General Sir Herbert Watts; Brigadier General Palmer E. Pierce, commanding 51st Brigade, 27th Division; Major General John F. O'Ryan, the 27th Division commander, and King George V.
7th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)
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The 7th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army, first established by The Duke of Wellington as part of the Anglo-Portuguese Army for service in the Peninsular War, and was active also during the First World War from 1914 to 1919, and briefly in the Second World War in 1939.
Column of the 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders marching to the trenches along the Becordel–Fricourt road, France, October 1916.