Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Able Seaman F. E. Watson, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Howe Battalion Royal Naval Division, who was killed in action when H.M.S. Sarnia was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean on 12 September 1918

1914 Star (SX5/184 F. E. Watson. A.B., R.N.V.R., Howe Bttn. R.N.D.); British War and Victory Medals (S.5-184 F. E. Watson. A.B., R.N.V.R.) extremely fine (3) £240-280

Frederick Ernest Watson, R.N.V.R., was killed in action when serving on H.M.S. Sarnia, 12 September 1918, aged 24 years. H.M.S. Sarnia was formerly a cross-channel steamship taken up by the Admiralty and used as an armed boarding steamship. She was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in the Mediterranean on 12 September 1918. Watson’s name is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial. He was the son of Henry James and Kate Watson, of Park View, Westfield, Battle, Sussex.