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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 58

A Scarce Great War C.I.E., Post-War 'Civil' C.B.E. Group of Seven to Lieutenant-Colonel J.S. Watson, Indian Medical Service, Who Served as a Surgeon in the Indian Army Hospital Ship Loyalty For the Entirety of The Great War
a) The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, Companion's (C.I.E.) neck badge, gold and enamel
b) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st type, Civil Division, Commander's (C.B.E.) neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel
c) 1914-15 Star (Lt. Col. J.W. Watson, I.M.S. Attd. H.S. "Loyalty.")
d) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves (Lt.-Col. J.W. Watson.), BWM partially officially renamed
e) Defence Medal
f) Delhi Durbar 1911, generally very fine, with riband bar (7)

C.I.E. London Gazette 12.9.1919 Lieutenant-Colonel John William Watson, Indian Medical Service

C.B.E. London Gazette 3.6.1929 Lieutenant-Colonel John William Watson, C.I.E., Indian Medical Service, Civil Surgeon, Ajmer, and Chief Medical Officer, Rajputana and Ajmer-Merwara

Lieutenant-Colonel John William Watson, C.I.E., C.B.E., born 1874; commissioned Indian Medical Service, 1898; employed as an Agency Surgeon in civil employment by the Indian Government, from October 1903; reverted to military service with the outbreak of the Great War; served in the Hospital Ship Loyalty, 1.9.1914-1.12.1918 (C.I.E., M.I.D. London Gazette 26.11.1918); the Loyalty, formerly the Royal Mail ship Empress of India, was sold to and renamed by the Maharajah of Gwalior; at the outbreak of the Great War it was converted into an Indian Army Hospital Ship, equipped with operating rooms, over 500 beds and it carried more than 15,000 war patients; advanced Lieutenant-Colonel 28.1.1918; at the end of the war returned to civil employment as Agency Surgeon for Bundelkhand, and later as Chief Medical Officer for Rajputana and Ajmer-Merwara.

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