Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Chief Engine Room Artificer Second Class P. H. Watts, Royal Navy

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1908-10 (M.257 P. H. Watts, Act. E.R.A. 4Cl, H.M.S. Diana.); 1914-15 Star (M.257. P. H. Watts. E.R.A. 2, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (M.257 P. H. Watts. E.R.A.2. R.N.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (M.257 P. H. Watts. E.R.A.1 H.M.S. Vivid.) mounted court-style for wear, pitting and contact marks, good fine and better (7) £200-£240

Percy Henry Watts was born in Barrow, Lancashire, on 6 June 1882 ands joined the Royal Navy as an Acting Engine Room Artificer Fourth Class on 13 April 1908. He served in H.M.S. Diana from 17 November 1908 to 3 February 1911, and then in a variety of ships and shore based establishments during the Great War. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 25 November 1922, and was shore pensioned in the rate of Chief Engine Room Artificer Second Class on 12 April 1930. Recalled for service during the Second World War, he was invalided out of the service, physically unfit, on 19 May 1944.

Sold with copied record of service.