Percy M. Watt & Vera M. Owen Page last modified:
Missing portrait.

Percy M. Watt
a.k.a. Willie Watt
(Source: J.S. Watt)

Percy & Vera Watt
Documents, Print, & Letters

We have organised Percy & Vera's print and written material by subject or type, and within each group, in approximate date order:
     ♦ Percy: RAF – London Gazette
     ♦ Percy: RAF – Records
     ♦ Percy: Glider Flights
     ♦ Various Other
     ♦ Percy: Accident Reports & Death Notices
     ♦ Vera: Death Notice
     ♦ Correspondence

Percy: RAF – The London Gazette
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Pilot Officer, effective 11 Dec., 1926

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Flying Officer, effective 11 June, 1928

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Flight Lieutenant, effective 10 Nov., 1931
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Squadron Leader, effective 1 Oct., 1937

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Half-pay: 12-16 January, 1938

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S/Ldr. P.M.Watt Assigned Command
of 49 (Bomber) Squadron, 22-11-1937
[ Flight Magazine, 23 Dec.1937 ]

Percy: RAF - Records
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List of Graduates, Feb.1920 - Sep.1939
RAF College Cranwell
Includes Percy M. Watt (pgs. 41 & 72)
and C. Alpin Watt (pg..44)
(Courtesy of: J.A.O. Watt / J.S. Watt)

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July 1926 Term Report
Flight Cadet P. McG. Watt
(Courtesy of: J.A.O. Watt / J.S. Watt)

  
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Flight Certificate 9727, 4 March, 1931
(CFS Wittering trained pilots
to become instructors.)
(Found by: J. Caseres)
(Source: RAF Museum, Herndon)

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Flight Certificate 9727
(Found by: J. Caseres)
(Source: RAF Museum, Herndon)

  

Percy: Glider Flights
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British team travelling to the
International Soaring Competition
July 1937 - Wasserkuppe, Hesse, Germany
(Sailplane and Glider, August 1937)

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International Soaring Competition
July 1937 - Wasserkuppe, Hesse, Germany
(4 mb. PDF file)
(Sailplane and Glider, August 1937)

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Percy's flight during the first
International Soaring Competition
July 1937 - Wasserkuppe, Hesse, Germany
(Sailplane and Glider, August 1937)

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“Exploring a Cold Front”
by S/Ldr. P.M. Watt
(Sailplane and Glider, August 1938)

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“On the Blackpool Trail”
by S/Ldr. P.M. Watt
(Sailplane and Glider, September 1939)
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Wins the Firth-Vickers Prize
National Soaring Contest - Dunstable
( Unknown newspaper, 21 July, 1938 )
(Courtesy of: J.A.O. Watt / J.S. Watt)

  

Various Other
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Vera & Percy’s
Wedding Invitation
Stanley & Katie (Benitz)
were Percy’s uncle & aunt.
(Courtesy of: J.A.O. Watt / J.S. Watt)

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Car accident. Fined £3
( Lincolnshire Echo, March 24, 1939 )

  

Percy: Accident Reports & Death Notices
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Aviation Safety Network
Incident Report
The last paragraph describes the
probable cause of the crash.
(Courtesy of the Aviation Safety Network)

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Excerpted RAF Accident Report
(Source: J.S. Watt)

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Detailed obit of
S/Ldr. P.M. Watt’s life
( Unknown newspaper, 25 Nov., 1939 )
(Courtesy of: J.A.O. Watt / J.S. Watt)
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Telegram received by brother Frank
“Percy died day-before-yesterday
aviation accident”
(Courtesy of: J.S. Watt)

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Percy's Death Notice
(a Buenos Aires newspaper)
(Source: J. Lockwood)

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Willy's Death Notice
The Western Daily Press
Bristol, Friday, December 8, 1939
(Source: J. Caseres)
 

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Percy's Death Notice
(Unknown Newspaper)
(Source: J. Watt / Baggott)
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“ SQUADRON LEADER
P. MCG. WATT
PILOT
ROYAL AIR FORCE
23RD NOVEMBER 1939 ”
Nettleham, Lincolnshire, UK
(Source: J.S. Watt / Baggott)

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Commemorative Scroll
(Courtesy of: J.A.O. Watt / J.S. Watt)

  

Vera: Death Notice
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Lasting Tribute to Vera WATT
( Western Morning News, May 26, 2012
Source: Funeral-notices.co.uk )

    

Correspondence:

Abbreviations:
Arg. Argentina:  BA Buenos Aires city – Bs.As. Buenos Aires prov. – Cba. Córdoba prov. – SFé Santa Fé prov.
Eng. England:  Hants Hampshire – Lincs Lincolnshire – Wilts Wiltshire – Yorks Yorkshire

To open a letter, click on it’s date.

Date From To Topics
1909 Mar. 17 photo of PMW, at: Greystone, Los Cocos, Cba. Auntie Calita, aka: Clarita Bz Riding his donkey, toy elephant, & visit by Bobby Fisher.
(Written for him by his mother, Hattie)
1927 Jan.17-18 Pip, at: RAF Upavon, Wiltshire. AM: Miss Watt, c/o Miss Wymer, 116 Beaufort Street, London, SW3 Status, snow, lights for a show, tasks & responsabilities,
1929 Nov. Pip, at: Central Flying School, Wittering, RAF AM: ditto above. Celebrating promotion, ill,
1932 Jan. 8 Pip, mailed from: Marseilles, France May Watt, at: estancia La California, SFé Visit to Egypt. returning by sea to UK, arriving Jan.15.
1933 July 2 Percy, aboard H.M.S. Hermes, near Aden Jimmie (Watt) (Typed) Likely visit to Arg., rough seas, TOM THUMB (?), accomodations, monkey, promotions
1937 June 8 Percy, at: Monkshood, East Harsey, Northallerton, Yorks Jimmy (Watt), at: presumably St. George's College, Quilmes, Bs.As. Buried tins (at St.George's), International Gliding Competition, King Kite glider, boxing,  daughter's health.
1937 July 26 Percy, at: Thormaby-on-Tees, Yorks. Daddy & Mummy (Al & Hattie) at (missing envelope): San Juan 1896, BA Family life, trip to Germany for Int'l Gliding Competition, descriptions of his flights, RAF exams, moving to new base.
1937 Sep. 4 Percy, at: Thormaby-on-Tees, Yorks. Daddy & Mummy (ditto above) Radio broadcast, promotion exam (to S/Ldr.), gliding, comming trips, baby pics.,
1937 Dec. 28 Percy, at: RAF Worthy Down, Winchester, Hants. Jimmy, at: San Juan 1896, BA New job, possible visit by Hattie, Wye college for Frank, articles re Wasserkuppe, gliding.
1937 Dec. 29 Percy, at: RAF Worthy Down, Winchester, Hants. Frank, at: San Juan 1896, BA Frank's imminent trip to England, Wye College, Christmas, family gatherings, housing, moves, servants, S/Ldr. repsonsibilities, motives why he joined the RAF.
1939 April 12 Percy, at: RAF Scampton, Lincs Daddy (Al Watt), at: (San Juan 1896, BA) Mother's (Hattie) imminent arrival at Hull, Frank, ideas on recoil, international situation, Hampden tests, lost command of 49, now just A flight, family to Cornwall, John Owen's wedding
1939 May 10 Percy, at: RAF Evanton, Ross Shire, Scotland Daddy (Al Watt), at:  (San Juan 1896, BA) Mother's arrival, Frank was late; all now in Scotland, Frank & Hattie tour Scotland, Franks return on 25th, Alpin & Mary, Cornwall, daughter, cost of cars.
1939 June 2 Percy, at: Trevone, Cornwall Daddy (Al Watt), at:  (San Juan 1896, BA) Mother in good health & spirits, Sea Mill's water, flat in BA, Frank re England & Wye college, Scampton airshow , demo'd Hampden, gliding events, family.
1939 June 21 Vera, at: Sea Mills, St Issey, Cornwall Jimmy, at: ??. Requests Jimmy to be godfather to new son, described, Hattie's imminent departure, Percy=Willie, photos.
1939 June 23 Percy, at: RAF Scampton, Lincs. Daddy (Al Watt), at:  (San Juan 1896, BA) Lonely, European cirisis, bombing simulations, fly-past in a Hampden, Hattie's visit to Cornwall, gliding competitions, sold (first?) car.
1939 June 23 Percy, at: RAF Scampton, Lincs. Jimmy, c/o G. Roberts, El Ingerto, Carlos Pellegrini, SFé Family, life in general, Frank, RAF, gliding.  [NOTE: Jimmy was visiting his uncle & aunt, George Roberts & Marion Benitz at estancia "El Ingerto".]
1939 Aug. 15 Percy, at: RAF Scampton, Lincs. Daddy (Al Watt), at: ?? Mother's last visit, she flew from Ireland, home defense excersices, gliding competition, weather, bombing exercises.
1939 Oct. 18 Percy, at: Scampton Mummie (Hattie Watt), at: San Juan 1896, BA Vera in Yorkshire, Jimmie's poor prospects in a peace-time RAF.
1939 Nov. 22 Will, at: Scampton, Lincoln Vera, at: "The Firs", Beck Hole, Goathland, Yorkshire Chatter re: postal times, a basin, not flying, training wireless operators tommorow, the bishop, letters.
NOTE: Percy died the next day in an air accident.

© Peter Benitz (Benitz Family)