{{Short description|Royal Navy officer (1887–1976)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}} {{Infobox military person |honorific_prefix = Vice-Admiral |name = Bertram Watson |honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CB|DSO}} |birth_date= 20 March 1887 |death_date= {{death-date and age|22 July 1976|20 March 1887}} |birth_place= |death_place= |image= Bertram Watson in 1936.jpg |caption= Watson in 1936 |nickname= |allegiance= {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom |service_years= |rank= Vice-Admiral |branch= 23px Royal Navy |commands=HMS ''Curlew''<br>HMS ''Valiant'' |unit= |battles=World War I<br>World War II |awards=Companion of the Order of the Bath<br>Distinguished Service Order |other_work= }}
Vice-Admiral '''Bertram Chalmers Watson''' CB DSO (20 March 1887 – 22 July 1976) was a Royal Navy officer who became Rear Admiral, Submarines.
==Naval career== Watson served in the First World War and, after being promoted to captain on 31 December 1925, he became commanding officer of the cruiser HMS ''Curlew'' in July 1932 and of the battleship HMS ''Valiant'' in August 1933.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/ROYAL%20NAVY%20WARSHIPS.pdf |title=Captains commanding Royal Navy Warships |accessdate=6 September 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150714184102/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/ROYAL%20NAVY%20WARSHIPS.pdf |archivedate=14 July 2015 }}</ref> He went on to become Rear Admiral, Submarines in December 1938 and, after seeing action in that role in the early stages of the Second World War,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Senior%20Royal%20Navy%20Appointments%201900-.pdf |title=Senior Royal Navy Appointments |accessdate=6 September 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315105247/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Senior%20Royal%20Navy%20Appointments%201900-.pdf |archivedate=15 March 2012 }}</ref> went on to be Flag Officer Greenock in January 1940 and Flag Officer Commanding, Iceland in October 1943.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7576691|title=The National Archives. ADM 196/50/339. f. 341.}}</ref>
==Later career== In 1951, Watson presented Arthur Cecil Champion with a painting of the village church of St. Peter's & St. Paul's in appreciation of his thirteen years as vicar of Hambleton.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=10 September 1951 |title=Rev. Arthur Champion retired |work=Portsmouth Evening News}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{s-bef|before=Robert Raikes}} {{s-ttl|title=Rear-Admiral Submarines|years=1938–1940}} {{s-aft|after=Sir Max Horton}} {{s-end}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Watson, Bertram}} Category:1887 births Category:1976 deaths Category:Royal Navy admirals Category:Companions of the Order of the Bath Category:Companions of the Distinguished Service Order