Walter Neville Watterson (1919 - 18 February 2017) was an English civil engineer and philatelist who was a specialist in the stamps and postal history of Sarawak, Borneo, and Brunei. He wrote a two volume history of the mails of the Japanese prisoner of war camps of Borneo during the Second World War.
Walter Watterson was born in Wolverhampton in 1919. [1] He married Betty Taylor in Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, in 1949. [2] They had a daughter Claire. [3]
Watterson worked as a civil engineer in Sarawak in the 1950s, kindling a lifelong interest in the country that was expressed through his philatelic collection. [4]
Watterson wrote a two volume history of the mails of the Japanese prisoner of war camps of Borneo during the Second World War, the first volume published in 1989 generating such a response from philatelists and former POWs that a second volume was produced in 1994. His collection of Sarawak was sold by Cavendish Philatelic Auctions in London in September 2017. [5]
He was a stalwart of the Northamptonshire Philatelic Society, the East Midlands Federation of Stamp Clubs, the Sarawak Specialists' Society and the Postal History Society. [3] [6] He and Betty were both fellows of the Royal Philatelic Society London.
Watterson died in Northampton General Hospital on 18 February 2017. He was pre-deceased by Betty. [3]
Walter Neville Watterson (1919 - 18 February 2017) was an English civil engineer and philatelist who was a specialist in the stamps and postal history of Sarawak, Borneo, and Brunei. He wrote a two volume history of the mails of the Japanese prisoner of war camps of Borneo during the Second World War.
Walter Watterson was born in Wolverhampton in 1919. [1] He married Betty Taylor in Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, in 1949. [2] They had a daughter Claire. [3]
Watterson worked as a civil engineer in Sarawak in the 1950s, kindling a lifelong interest in the country that was expressed through his philatelic collection. [4]
Watterson wrote a two volume history of the mails of the Japanese prisoner of war camps of Borneo during the Second World War, the first volume published in 1989 generating such a response from philatelists and former POWs that a second volume was produced in 1994. His collection of Sarawak was sold by Cavendish Philatelic Auctions in London in September 2017. [5]
He was a stalwart of the Northamptonshire Philatelic Society, the East Midlands Federation of Stamp Clubs, the Sarawak Specialists' Society and the Postal History Society. [3] [6] He and Betty were both fellows of the Royal Philatelic Society London.
Watterson died in Northampton General Hospital on 18 February 2017. He was pre-deceased by Betty. [3]