A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces

Pair: Lieutenant C. Watt, 42nd (Royal Highlanders of Canada) Battalion, Canadian Infantry, who died of wounds in July 1917

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. C. Watt), together with the recipient’s Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R., the reverse officially inscribed, ‘Lieut. C. Watt’, good very fine (3) £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces.

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Charles Watt was born in Montreal in August 1890 and enlisted in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force in August 1916. Allocated to the 42nd Battalion - the Royal Highlanders of Canada - and embarked for France, he was severely wounded in the right leg in early June 1917 - so much so that he was placed on the dangerously ill list at No. 24 General Hospital at Etaples where, having had the leg amputated, he died on 11 July. Watt, who married Ida Lillian in November 1916, was buried in Etaples Military Cemetery.