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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 96

A Knight Bachelor, Order of St. John Group of Six to Lieutenant-Colonel Sir H.G. Waters, Gloucestershire Home Guard, Late East Indian Railway Volunteer Rifles
a) Knight Bachelor's Badge, 1st type, 80mm x 60mm, gilt and enamel
b) The Most Venerable Order of St. John, Knight of Grace's set of insignia, neck Badge, 50mm, silver and enamel, lions and unicorns in angles; Star, 68mm, silver and enamel, lions and unicorns in angles; together with the recipient's Officer's breast Badge, silver, plain angles, the reverse engraved 'Dr. H.G. Waters 1920'
c) Delhi Durbar 1911, silver (Captain H.G. Waters E.I.R.V.R.)
d) Jubilee 1935 (Sir Harry Waters Chair: U.D.C. 32-35), unit partially corrected
e) Indian Volunteer Forces Officers' Decoration, G.V.R., silver and silver-gilt (Surgn Lt-Col. H.G. Waters E.I. Rly. Vol. Rfls.), contemporarily engraved in large serif capitals
f) Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, G.V.R. (Captn. (Hony Major) H.G. Waters. E.I. Ry. Voltr. Rifles.), generally good very fine, with the recipient's East India Railway Volunteers Prize Medal, silver, the reverse embossed 'Martin Challenge Shield Member of the Winning Team', and engraved '1900-01 'F' Company 57 Points Lieut. H.G. Waters.'; and a portrait photograph of the recipient (8)

Knight Bachelor London Gazette 1.1.1924 Harry George Waters, Esq., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Principal Medical Officer, East Indian Railway

Order of St. John, Knight of Grace London Gazette 4.6.1923 Harry George Waters, M.R.C.S. (from Honorary Associate).
The Recommendation states: 'Dr. Harry George Waters is at present the Chief Medical Officer of the East Indian Railway. His connection with the St. John Ambulance Brigade may be stated to have commenced as far back as 1884, when he took his First Aid Certificate. Soon after he qualified as a doctor he commenced teaching St. John Ambulance classes at Market Weighton and in Hull in 1893-95. On joining the East Indian Railway in 1896 he commenced teaching Ambulance classes at Tundla and organized a team from this station for the first competition for the Railway Ambulance Shield which was held at Jubbulpore, and since then has been teaching and examining classes. For the past 6 years he has been Secretary and Treasurer of the East Indian Railway Centre of the Association. In 1904 he was made an Honorary Life Member of the Association; whilst in 1920 he was made an Honorary Associate of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England. Dr. Waters may be safely considered as one of the Association's best workers in India, and as President of the Railway Medical Officers' Conference has done much to revive the interest in the work of the Association during the past few years.'

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Harry George Waters, born Rathmullen, Co. Donegal, Ireland, April 1868; educated at the Royal Naval School and St. Thomas' Hospital; appointed Chief Medical Officer, East Indian Railway, and served with the E.I. Railway Volunteer Reserve; established the St. John Ambulance First Aid Classes on the East Indian Railway; served during the Great War in the Indian Defence Force; Appointed Honorary Magistrate, Tundla and Jamalpur; knighted for his services, 1924; later Lieutenant-Colonel Indian Defence Force Medical Corps and Honorary Colonel, East Indian Railway Regiment; retired 1926; subsequently served as Medical Officer, 7th (Stroud) Battalion, Gloucestershire Home Guard.

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