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VC422 Thomas Colclough Watson
BORN 11 April 1867
DIED 15 June 1917 AGE 50
VC Won 16-17 September 1897 AGE 30
Place VC Won Bilot, Mohmand Valley, India
War/Campaign Mohmand Campaign, India
Name Thomas Colclough Watson No.
VC Issue No. 422 Awards VC
Regiment Corps of Royal Engineers
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant-Colonel
Place Of Birth Velsen, Holland
Place Of Death London, England
Buried/Location Ashes Golders Green Crematorium, Hoop Lane, Golders Green, Nth London
Cremated Golders Green Crematorium, Hoop Lane, London, England
Date Buried/Cremated 18 June 1917
Headstone Urn (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Niche 1153, East Columbarium
Gazetted 20 May 1898
VC Presented 23 June 1898, Queen Victoria, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England
Memorials
P Named on 'For Valour' board at the Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Prince Arthur Road, Chatham, Kent
P Inscription in niche 1153, East Columbarium, Golders Green Crematorium, London
P Named on War Memorial at Golders Green Crematorium, London
P Named on Victoria Cross memorial, Golders Green Crematorium, London
Named on Memorial, King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth, Lincolnshire
By The Way…
In the 1st World War while in Iraq he contracted a disease, that invalided him out of the army, and later dying from this in London
VC Held By
The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M
