Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Sergeant W. Watkins, New Zealand Expeditionary Force

British War Medal, erased; Victory Medal (25/838 Sjt., N.Z.E.F.); War Medal 1939-45; New Zealand War Service Medal; Belgian Croix de Guerre, very fine or better (5) £100-120

Belgian Croix de Guerre London Gazette 12 July 1918. (90 such awards to New Zealand Regiments during the Great war).

W. Watkins served later in the war as Regimental sergeant Major with the New Zealand Machine Gun Corps.