Orders, Decorations and Medals

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Lieut. P. S. Watson, R.N. H.M.S. Sappho) officially engraved naming, nearly extremely fine £220-260

Philip Shepard Watson was born in Southsea, Hampshire in 1870. Educated at Stubbington House Boarding School in Tichfield, Hampshire, he joined the Royal Navy as a Cadet on 15 January 1882. He was appointed a Midshipman on the Tourmaline in August 1886; Sub-Lieutenant on the Australia in November 1890, and Lieutenant on the Daphne in February 1892. He retired with the rank of Commander on 28 August 1909. With the onset of war he was recalled for service and served throughout on the Impregnable, the Boys Training Establishment at Devonport. He reverted to the Retired List in October 1919; he died in early 1937. Sold with copied roll extract and service details.