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A Good Great War East Africa Campaign D.S.O., O.B.E. Group of Seven to Lieutenant-Colonel C.S.M.C. Watson, Royal Engineers, Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel; Order of British Empire, Officer's (O.B.E.), 1st type, Military Division, breast Badge, silver-gilt (Hallmarks for London, 1910); Queen's South Africa, five clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut., R.E.); 1914-15 Star (Capt., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaf (Lt. Col.); Delhi Durbar 1911, nearly extremely fine or better (7)

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A Good Great War East Africa Campaign D.S.O., O.B.E. Group of Seven to Lieutenant-Colonel C.S.M.C. Watson, Royal Engineers, Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel; Order of British Empire, Officer's (O.B.E.), 1st type, Military Division, breast Badge, silver-gilt (Hallmarks for London, 1910); Queen's South Africa, five clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut., R.E.); 1914-15 Star (Capt., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaf (Lt. Col.); Delhi Durbar 1911, nearly extremely fine or better (7)

Lot Essay

D.S.O. London Gazette 1.2.1917 (East Africa).

O.B.E. London Gazette 3.6.1919 'For valuable services rendered in connection with Military Operations in East Africa'.

Mention in Despatches London Gazettes 30.6.1916 and 11.6.1920 (Both for East Africa).

Colonel Charles Scott Moncrief Chalmers Watson, D.S.O., O.B.E., was born in February 1881 and commissioned into the Royal Engineers as 2nd Lieutenant in May 1900. After serving in South Africa during the Boer War from December 1901 to May 1902, Watson was employed by the Government of India Railway Department and in 1911 is noted as being an Assistant Manager of the North Western Railway. Recalled for service in the Great War he was active, variously, in British, German and Portuguese East Africa, Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia from October 1914 to November 1918, mainly with the East African Force. He was appointed Deputy Director of Railways as Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary) on 20.7.1918, a post he retained until February the following year. Advanced to Colonel in 1925, Watson retired with a Pension from India in August of that year.