Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Able Seaman W. B. Watson, Royal Navy, who was killed in action when H.M. Submarine Oxley was accidentally torpedoed and sunk by H.M.S. Triton on 11 September 1939

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named Admiralty enclosure, in card box of issue addressed to ‘Mr. J. Watson, Avonlea, Aberoer, Rhostyllen, Wrexham, Denbighshire, N. Wales’, extremely fine (3) £100-£140

William Bradford Watson was killed when H.M. Submarine Oxley was accidentally sunk by H.M.S. Triton about 28 nautical miles south-west of Stavanger, Norway, in the Royal Navy’s first major friendly-fire incident of the war. There where only two survivors. One of the very first casualties of the Second World War, Watson is commemorated on Plymouth Naval Memorial.

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