The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Pair: Colonel C. W. Watney, Middlesex Regiment, later Indian Army, who was twice Mentioned in Despatches for his services in Kurdistan and Persia in 1920

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut: C. W. Watney, Middx: Rgt:); General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Kurdistan, Iraq (Bt. Lieut. Col. C. W. Watney.) edge bruise to first, good very fine (2) £400-£500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria.

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Charles Wanford Watney was born on 22 December 1880 and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Middlesex Regiment on 29 August 1900. He served in South Africa during the Boer War with No. 1 Middlesex Company, 21st Battalion, Mounted Infantry, and was promoted Lieutenant on 18 January 1902, and Captain on 29 August 1909. Transferring to the Indian Army, he served as Supply and Transport Officer in the 74th Punjabis, and was promoted Major on 1 September 1915. He served during the Great War during the operations in the Swat Valley in 1915, in Iraq and Mesopotamia from 1916, and in South and Central Kurdistan in 1919. For his services with the Supply and Transport Corps he was twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 12 February 1920 for Central Kurdistan, and London Gazette 18 May 1920 for Kurdistan and Persia), and was promoted Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on 15 November 1919. He was promoted Colonel on 15 November 1923, while serving with the Aden Independent Brigade, Indian Army Service Corps, and retired on 10 May 1928.