Auction: 5005 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 486
Nine: Lieutenant Colonel J.A.I. Watts, Royal Corps of Signals, Late Royal Flying Corps and Duke of Cornwall´s Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. J.A.I. Watts); India General Service 1936-39, one clasp, North West Frontier 1937-39 (Major J.A.I. Watts. R. Sigs.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; United States of America, Bronze Star, reverse engraved ´Lt. Col. J.A.I. Watts R.Sigs´, Great War Medals good fine, otherwise good very fine or better (9) Estimate £ 240-280 Bronze Star London Gazette 22.3.1949 Lieutenant Colonel John Athelwold Iremonger Watts (15461), Royal Corps of Signals. Lieutenant Colonel John Athelwold Iremonger Watts, born 1897; Second Lieutenant Duke of Cornwall´s Light Infantry, 19.7.1916; attached Royal Flying Corps 31.1.1917-24.6.1917; served in the Great War on the Western Front 14.7.1917-17.12.1917 and 4.4.1918-11.11.1918, Italian Front 18.12.1917-3.4.1918; Lieutenant Royal Corps of Signals 19.1.1918; attached Indian Signals Service 30.10.1923 - 5.10.1926; Captain 19.7.1927; Major 8.3.1937; advanced Lieutenant Colonel 15.6.1942; Commandant Signal Training Centre India, 18.10.1940 - 4.5.1942; retired Lieutenant Colonel 15.7.1948.
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