Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Staff Sergeant G. R. Watts, Army Service Corps

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (S/12576 Pte. G. R. Watts. A.S.C.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein (12575. Pte. G. R. Watts. A.S.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (12575 Cpl. G. R. Watts. A.S.C.); 1914-15 Star, unnamed; British War and Victory Medals (S2SR-01762 S.Sjt. G. R. Watts. A.S.C.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum, unnamed as issued, generally good very fine (7) £400-£500

George Robert Watts was born at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, in 1872 and attested for the Army Service Corps in February 1896. He served with the Corps in Egypt and the Sudan from July to October 1898, and in South Africa during the Boer War from October 1899 to August 1902. He was promoted Corporal in April 1902, and was discharged in February 1908, but re-enlisted following the outbreak of the Great War and served with the Army Service Corps on the Western Front from 4 September 1915.

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