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Auction: 11010 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 10

A Great War 1918 ´Western Front´ M.C. Group of Three to Lieutenant K.C.F. Watson, South Lancashire Regiment, Attached Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Killed in Action 12.4.1918 a) Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse engraved in upright sans-serif capitals ´2/Lieutenant K.C.F. Watson 3rd South Lancashire Regt´ b) British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. K.C.F. Watson), extremely fine (3) Estimate £ 800-1,000 M.C. London Gazette 1.1.1918 2nd Lt. Kenneth Charles Forrester Watson, Spec. Res., S. Lan. R., attd R. War. R. Lieutenant Kenneth Charles Forrester Watson, M.C., son of the Reverend G.F. Watson, of 18, Chesterfield Road, Bristol; commissioned into the 3rd Battalion South Lancashire Regiment, he was attached to the 2/8th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment and served with them in the French theatre of war, from 24.7.1916; in February 1918 the 2/8th Battalion was disbanded and the majority of officers and men, including Watson, were transferred to the 2/7th Battalion; he joined his new Battalion in France, 9.4.1918, in time for the German Lys Offensive; he was killed in action at Calonne-sur-la-Lys, 12.4.1918, and is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium.

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£750