Lt.Col. Evelyn Cyril Watson O.B.E.

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From Ann G-P research

LG 27th Jan 1911 7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards, The undermentioned Lieutenants to be Captains. Dated 9th November, 1910 : -Evelyn C. Watson.

Go his OBE in 1919 for "Services in connection to the war" ; still a Captain at that time.

From Wendy H;The Times June 5 1933. Marriages. Silver Weddings. WATSON:SALMON. On June 4 1908 at St.Jude's, South Kensington, by the Rev.E.Stafford Hilliard, Vicar of St.Andrew's Fulham, assisted by Rev.Pole Simeon and Prebendary Eardley Wilmot, Vicar of St Jude's. EVELYN CYRIL WATSON, 7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards, to DULCE LILIAN, younger daughter of the late W.J.BUSHE SALMON, St Anns Stanwell Middlesex and of Mrs.Bushe Salmon, 12 Barons Court Road, West Kensington. Present address Staple Hill House, Wellesbourne, Warwick.

Apr 1940; Guest at George-Powell/St John Wright wedding along with wife, mother-in-law and children Sonia and Cyril.

Times: Watson - on 8 March 1961 of heart failure at the Beaufort Arms Hotel Crickhowell Brecon Lt Col Evelyn Cyril Watson OBE late 7th Dragoon Guards, late the Lodge Southrop Lechlade in his 78 year, beloved husband of Dulce and devoted Father. Funeral Hereford Crematorium 12 noon Thursday March 23

MTGP remembers visiting them at a large house when he was a young child - almost certainly the Southrop address.

Evelyn married Dulce Lilian Salmon, daughter of William John Bush Salmon and Ina Gertrude Bateman, on 4 Jun 1908 in St.Jude's, South Kensington, London. (Dulce Lilian Salmon was born Q3 1884 in Bath.)