Lot Archive

Lot

№ 1296

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27 June 2002

Hammer Price:
£330

Four: Lieutenant-Colonel A. C. Watson, Indian Army

India General Service 1854-95
, 1 clasp, Hazara 1891 (Lieutt., 11th Bl. Infy.) 1914-15 Star, (Lt. Col., 8 Rajputs); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaf (Lt-Col.), mounted as worn, good very fine and better (4) £220 -260

Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Carnac Watson was born in 1866 and entered the British Army as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Wiltshire Regiment in 1886. He entered the Indian Staff Corps in 1888 and served in the Hazara 1891 Expedition as a Lieutenant in the 11th Bengal Infantry. He attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1912. Serving with the Indian Army during the Great War, he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette, 27.8.1918).