Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War D.S.O. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel E. V. Watson, Royal Garrison Artillery, who commanded the 428th Battery, Royal Field Artillery in Egypt

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; 1914-15 Star (Capt. E. V. Watson; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major E. V. Watson; Defence Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Sergt. Eric V. Watson) mounted for display, nearly very fine (6) £1,200-£1,600

D.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘For distinguished service in connection with Military Operations in Egypt - Major Eric Victor Watson, R.G.A., comdg. 428th Bty., R.F.A.’

M.I.D,. London Gazette 5 June 1919: Allenby’s despatch, for services with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force during the period from the 19th September, 1918, to the 31st January, 1919.’

Eric Victor Watson was born in 1880 and educated at Brighton College and City and Guilds of London Technical College; 2nd Lieutenant R.G.A., 1901; served in the Great War in Aden from 12 February 1915, with No. 61 Company R.G.A., and later in Egypt with 8th Brigade R.F.A. (despatches, D.S.O.); Lieutenant-Colonel 1929; retired 1933; J.P. for Kent 1940. Lieutenant-Colonel Watson died at Hawkhurst, Kent, on 31st May 1956.