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Auction: 23111 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 679

The fine Indian Army Medical Officer's group of five to Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. Watson, Indian Medical Service, who served aboard the Hospital Ship Loyalty during the Great War, earning a 'Mention' along the way and several further post-war honours

1914-15 Star (Lt. Col. J.W. Watson, I.M.S. Attd. H.S. "Loyalty."); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oakleaves (Lt-Col. J.W. Watson.); Defence Medal 1939-45; Delhi Durbar 1911, first part of rank on War and Victory Medals with minor correction, mounted Court-style for display, sometime lacquered, good very fine (5)

[C.I.E.] London Gazette 12 September 1919.

[C.B.E.[ London Gazette 3 June 1929

Lieutenant-Colonel John William Watson was born in 1874 and commissioned into the Indian Medical Service in 1898. Employed as an Agency Surgeon in civil employment by the Indian Government from October 1903, with the outbreak of the Great War he reverted to military service and was appointed to the Hospital Ship Loyalty - formerly the Royal Mail Ship (and ocean liner) Empress of India. On 19 January 1915, with her new name and new role she was converted into an Indian Army Hospital Ship, equipped with operating rooms, over 500 beds and during the course of her war service carried more than 15,000 patients from the Indian Army.
Watson was advanced Lieutenant-Colonel on 28 January 1918 and at the end of the war returned to civil employment as Agency Surgeon for Bundelkhand, and later as Chief Medical Officer for Rajputana and Ajmer-Merwara. Sold with London Gazette extracts.

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