Child of Joseph Stanhope and Elizabeth Ormston Watson

01. Lt-Col Philip Joseph Spence Watson, MC (Pip)

1902-03-31 b. Monkseaton, Northumberland GRO index; Army List; TNA: RG14PN30804 RG78PN1760 RD559 SD4 ED10 SN30
1911 student, living in 11 rooms at St St Georges, Monkseaton, Tynemouth, Northumberland, with his parents and two domestic servants RG14PN30804 RG78PN1760 RD559 SD4 ED10 SN30
1921 cadet at R.M. College, whole time; boarder at Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Berkshire RG 15/06073 RD124 SD2 ED3&7 SN–
1922 2nd Lieutenant, Border R. Army List
1929 of the Castle, Carlisle, Cumberland electoral registers
1931
1939-01-03 Captain, 1st Battalion, The Border Regiment; from Catterick Camp; awarded the Military Cross for gallant and distinguished service in Palestine The Times, 1939-04-01; Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough, 1939-01-05

Gallantry Gains Former Monkseaton Man M.C.

CAPTAIN Philip Joseph Spence Watson, of the 1st Battalion of the Border Regiment, formerly of Monkseaton, has been awarded the Military Cross for gallantry in Palestine.

The decoration is conferred upon Captain Watson for conspicuous courage and ability during a round-up of enemy rebels.

He was in command of platoons which were ordered to surround rebels during darkness. The action entailed movement for some miles over extremely difficult and hilly country.

ENTIRE GANG CAUGHT

Contact was made and all the rebels were either killed or captured.

Capt Watson is a son of the late Mr Joseph Stanhope Watson and Mrs Watson, who lived at Monkseaton for many years; and a grandson of the late Mr Joseph Watson of Gateshead, brother of the late Dr. Robert Spence Watson, a well known Newcastle solicitor and leading member of the Northern Liberal Federation.

After the death of his father, Capt. Watson's mother removed to Harrogate where she now resides. Mr Kenneth Watson and Miss Watson, of Rosella Place, North Shields and the Misses Clephan of Tynemouth are his cousins.

Shields Daily News, 1939-01-05
1939-09-29 not found in 1939 Register 1939 England and Wales Register (RG 101)
1940-06-29 Capt., 1st Battalion, The Border Regiment; certified entitled to the (Palestine) General Service Medal UK military campaign medal and award rolls
1954-03-04 major, HM army; executor of his mother's will National Probate Calendar
1956-01-03 of West Garth, West End, Burgh-by-Sands, Cumberland; d. at The Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle, Cumberland GRO index; National Probate Calendar
"WATSON.—On Jan. 3, 1956, suddenly, in Carlisle, PHILIP JOSEPH SPENCE WATSON, M.C., Lt.-Col. Border Regiment, aged 53, only son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Spence Watson, of Newcastle upon Tyne." The Times, 1956-01-10
1956-04-24 will proved by Lloyds Bank Limited; effects £7132 7s. 8d. National Probate Calendar
net £6995, duty £104 Shields Daily News, 1956-06-02


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