Rear Admiral Fischer Burges Watson, CBE, DSO & Bar (3 September 1884 – 14 August 1960) was a Royal Navy officer who served as commander-in-chief of the New Zealand Division.
[1] In early June 1902 it was announced that he would be posted to HMS Magnificent, serving in the Channel Squadron,[2] but the appointment was cancelled and later the same month he was posted as Midshipman on board the protected cruiser HMS Ariadne, about to become flagship on the North America and West Indies Station.
[1] After the war he briefly commanded HMS Velox before being appointed assistant to chief of staff and maintenance captain at Portsmouth in 1920.
[1] He retired in 1935 but was recalled in 1939[4] at the start of the Second World War during which he served on the staff of the commander-in-chief Western Approaches before becoming commodore of ocean convoys in October 1940, senior officer for landing ship tank flotilla in the Mediterranean Fleet in April 1943 and senior naval officer at Selsey in May 1944.
[5] Watson was capped twice for England in rugby union, playing matches in the 1908 and 1909 Home Nations, as a forward.