The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Lieutenant-Colonel C N Watney

Lieutenant Colonel Charles Norman WATNEY, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

AWARDS: CIE, TD.

London Gazette 2nd March 1900.

The under mentioned Officers are granted the temporary rank of Lieutenant in the Army whilst serving with the Volunteer Company in South Africa. Dated 3rd March, 1900 : Captain C. N. Watney, 1st Volunteer Battalion
The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment).

London Gazette 10th September 1907.

1st Volunteer Battalion, The Queens Own (Royal West Kent Regiment); Captain (Honorary Lieutenant in the Army) C. N. Watney to be Major. Dated 1st August, 1907.

London Gazette 12th September 1919.

The King has been graciously pleased, to make the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire for Meritorious Services in connection with the War in India. The promotions and appointments to date from 3rd June 1919.

To be Additional Members of the said Most Eminent Order:

Lieutenant Colonel Charles Norman Watney, 1/4th Royal West Kent Regiment.

London Gazette 18th September 1919.

Territorial Force - Lieutenant Colonel C N Watney, CIE, TD., from 4th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, to be Colonel. 5th August 1918.

Commanding Officer of 4th Battalion, Territorial Force from 4th January 1911. Then from 4th August 1914, Commanding Officer of 1st/4th Battalion, which was formed of men from the 4th Battalion, who volunteered for overseas service.

Colonel C.N.Watney of the Brewery family, and his wife Winifred, owned Ivy Hatch Court, near Sevenoaks, Kent, from at least 1919 until approx 1945. Mrs Watney was a keen hunt supporter and rode to hounds with the West Kent Foxhounds, Colonel Watney is understood to have been a patron of St.Bartholomews Hospital, London.

Ada Winifred Watney, died 2nd July 1953, wife of Colonel C N Watney, of Bishops Caundle House, Dorset.

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