Casualty of WWII, Watt served with the Royal Air Force Ferry Command.

He was 27 and the son of Eli and Lorene King; husband of Geraldine King, of Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.A.

The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec, Quebec, Canada) 13 Aug 1941, Wed. Page 6

Capt. W. M. King

Capt. W. M. King, a 2nd Lieutenant in the U. S. Army Air Corps Reserve, had made Montreal his home ever since joining the ferry service last August, living with his wife, Barbara, in the Tower Apartments, Cole St. Luc road. During his stays here between flights, he made many friends.
Only 27 years of age, he was born in Mineral Wells, Texas, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Eli King, who have since moved to Greyford, Texas. Capt. King crammed all sorts of flying into his dozen years of experience. He did crop-dusting, spent some time with a barnstorming troupe, worked at photographic flying, and later became a test pilot.
His home-town before coming here was Little Rock, capital city of Arkansas, where he headed Arkansas Aircraft Industries, Inc. For various periods he was an instructor and also flew commercially. Since joining the ferry service last fall, Capt. King had the greatest number of delivery flights to his credit. His record of service including Atfero work totalled several thousand hours.
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Consolidated Liberator (LB-30A) AM261 of the Atlantic Return Ferry Organisation, flew into Mullach Buidhe north of Goat Fell on the Isle of Arran on 10th August 1941

The aircraft had take off from Heathfield (Ayr) to fly to Gander in eastern Canada with ferry crews on board with the intention of those crews ferrying new aircraft back across the Atlantic. Shortly after take off the aircraft entered cloud and flew into Mullach Buidhe near the head of Coire Lan. The flight crews onboard were from Royal Air Force Ferry Command, Air Transport Auxiliary and British Overseas Airways Corporation. All 22 of the crew and passengers perished in the crash making it the worst crash on Arran. This aircraft had been used less than two weeks earlier to fly the Duke of Kent across the Atlantic, the first such time a member of the royal family had crossed the Atlantic by air.

All of the crew and passengers were buried on Arran except Radio Officer Henry Green who was buried at Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey.

Ernest Robert Bristow White Captain BOAC Pilot
Francis Delaforce Bradbrooke Captain ATA Co-pilot

Passengers
Capt. Josiah James Anderson RAFFC
Capt. Jack Wixen RAFFC
Ralph Bruce Brammer Radio Officer RAFFC
John Beatty Drake Radio Officer RAFFC
Daniel Joseph Duggan Captain RAFFC
Henry Samuel Green Radio Officer BOAC
George Thomas Harris Captain RAFFC
Hoyt Ralph Judy Captain RAFFC
Wilfrid Graves Kennedy Radio Officer RAFFC
Watt Miller King Captain RAFFC
George Laing Radio Officer RAFFC
William Kenneth Marks Radio Officer RAFFC
Hugh Cameron McIntosh Radio Officer RAFFC
Albert Alexander Oliver Radio Officer ATA
George Herbert Powell Radio Officer ATA
John Evan Price Captain RAFFC
Herbert David Rees Radio Officer ATA
Ernest George Reeves Flight Engineer RAFFC
John James Rouleston First Officer RAFFC (headstone was misspelled).
Harold Clifford Wesley Smith Captain RAFFC

Hope Star (Hope, Arkansas) 12 Aug 1941, Tue

State Man Dies
in RAF Service
Capt. Watt King,
Little Rock, Killed
in Air Accident

LONDON(AP)- The death of seven American officers in the British armed forces including Capt. Watt M. King, formerly of Little Rock, Ark., along with 15 others in the crash of a large plane described as one of the transoceanic type, was announced Tuesday.
(The plane was believed to have been a bomber ferry. Announcement of the crash was also made in Montreal by the RAF ferry command. )
Eight of the victims were Canadians. The plane was crashed on a hillside Saturday.
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Lived at Little Rock.
LITTLE ROCK - (AP) - Captain Watt M. King, who was killed in a plane accident in the United Kingdom joined the RAF ferry command last September after 15 years flying experience in the southwest.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Eli King of Graford, Texas, King started flying at the age of 13 and became known as one of the best crop dusters in this section. He opened a flying service in Little Rock in 1937 and operated it until he joined the ferry service.
His widow, the former Miss Geraldine Stain of Little Rock, is living at Montreal now. His contract with the ferry service would have expired next month and sources said he planned to quit.