Lot Archive

Lot

№ 553

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1 December 2004

Hammer Price:
£290

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Lieut. P. S. Watson, R.N. H.M.S. Sappho) officially engraved naming, nearly extremely fine £140-180

Philip Shepard Watson joined the Royal Navy as a Cadet on 15 January 1882. Rising through the ranks to Lieutenant in January 1892, he retired with the rank of Commander on 28 August 1909.