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Auction: 25113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 526

Six: Flight Sergeant (Navigator) W. D. Watson, No. 75 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force, who was killed in action on 29/30 August 1944, whilst his Lancaster was detailed on an Op to Stettin

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; New Zealand Service Medal 1939-45; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Memorial Cross, G.VI.R/ (F/Sgt W D Watson), good very fine (6)

Walter Davis Watson was born at Glasgow in April 1914 and moved to New Zealand in 1936. With the outbreak of the Second World War, he joined the Royal New Zealand Air Force in April 1941 and joined No. 75 Squadron by August 1944. Sharing in the Ops on the marshalling yards at Lens, the airfield at St Trond and to Kiel & Russelheim, his final time getting 'wheels up' was on 29 August. With their Lancaster detailed to attack Stettin, they failed to return to base and were lost without trace; sold together with copied research.

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£180