Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain W. N. Watson, M.C., King’s Own Scottish Borderers, formerly Royal Army Medical Corps, died of wounds in France on 29 May 1916

1914-15 Star (Lieut., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) nearly extremely fine (3) £350-400

Entitled to M.C. London Gazette 14 January 1916.

Captain William Norman Watson died of wounds in France and Flanders on 29 May 1916, whilst serving with the 6th Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers. He is buried at Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, France.

The following is extracted from the British Medical Journal, 10 June 1916: ‘Captain William Norman Watson has died of wounds. He was the second son of the late Reverend William Watson, Kiltearn, Ross-shire, and Mrs Watson of Edinburgh, and was 27 years of age. He received his education at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1913. He joined the R.A.M.C. in December 1914, and was attached to the King’s Own Scottish Borderers. Captain Watson won the Military Cross at the Battle of Loos, and was decorated by the King in April last, in which month at the request of the commanding officer he took a combatant commission. Last month he was wounded in the head, and died in a casualty clearing station...’

A photograph of Captain Watson appears in the Univerity of Edinburgh Roll of Service.