Veteran Story: Watts was promoted to Lance Corporal in September that year, but shortly after was severely wounded in action, during the Battle of Broodseinde, 5 October 1917. Initially treated by the 3rd Australian Field Ambulance, he was taken to the 10th Casualty Clearance Station, where it was decided he should be evacuated to England. There he was admitted to Winchester Red Cross Hospital to be treated for the gun shot wounds to his right side and chest. Fragments of metal were lodged in his chest, and penetrated his right lung - still seriously ill, Watts returned home to his family in Southport in 1918.In 1920 he married Laura Elizabeth Simmons, they had one child. Alfred Watts, never fully recovered from his injuries and died in 1924, he is buried at the Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane.
