Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private S. F. Watt, Royal Marines, who was wounded during the Boxer Rebellion

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Natal (8758 Pte. S. F. Watt, R.M, H:M:S Terrible) impressed naming; China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (S. T. [sic] Watt, Pte. R.M., H.M.S. Terrible.) edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £700-£900

Samuel Francis Watt was born at Buckland, Portsmouth, on 30 March 1878 and attested for the Royal Marine Light Infantry at Eastney on 23 October 1896. He served in H.M.S. Terrible from 24 March 1898 to 24 October 1902, and served with the Naval Brigade in South Africa during the Boer War, and in China during the Boxer Rebellion. He was granted a Hurt Certificate for a bullet wound to the scalp on 14 July 1900. He saw further service during the Great War, first in H.M.S. Invincible, and then with the Royal Marine Battalion in Ireland immediately after the Easter Rising, and was promoted Acting Corporal on 11 October 1917. He was shore demobilised on 28 March 1919, and subsequently enrolled in the Royal Naval Reserve.

Sold with copied record of service and other research.