Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Jubilee 1887, 1 clasp, 1897, City of London Police (PS, 80. H. Watson.) with top bronze riband bar, very fine £80-£120

Henry William Burton Watson was born at Seer Green, Buckinghamshire, in 1857 and joined the City of London Police on 11 October 1877. He was promoted Second Class Sergeant on 15 June 1882; First Class Sergeant on 27 September 1888; Station Inspector on 13 November 1890; and District Inspector on 4 October 1894, and during the course of his career was often called upon as a witness in court, as often reported in the contemporary press. He resigned to pension on 21 August 1902, his conduct noted as ‘exemplary’.

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