Basil George Watson was born on Oct 12, 1893 inwards Bendigo, Victoria, as well as spent his childhood inwards the suburbs of Melbourne, Brighton. Watson was commencement introduced to aviation past times Harry Hawker inwards early on 1914 on an Australian tour of the famous aviator, who was 5 years older than Watson. In May 1914, Watson went to England alongside hawker, where he attended airplane pilot preparation as well as worked equally an engineer as well as exam airplane pilot alongside the sopwith aviation fellowship as well as after the majestic army. He was seriously injured inwards an accident after a engine failure during a exam flying inwards June 1915 as well as returned to Commonwealth of Australia 12 months after after beingness declared medically unfit to proceed his armed services service. He as well as thence built his ain biplane based on the blueprint of the sopwith pup, completing the projection inwards simply over iii months inwards the mo one-half of 1916.
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