C.B.E./M.C. GROUP OF 8 MEDALS TO LIEUT. M.T. WATERHOUSE, SHER. RANG.

Military Cross Gazetted 1 Jan 1917.

Michael Theodore Waterhouse was born on 31 Aug 1888 and joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. in 1912, commissioned with the Nottinghamshire Sherwood Rangers Territorial Yeomanry in 1914, serving in Egypt and Gallipoli from 27 Apr 1915, initially in the Yeomanry Cavalry Division in Egypt in early 1915, and then in Gallipoli, before being evacuated in 1916 and returning to Cairo.

Waterhouse was then posted to Salonika where, as a skilled draughtsman (after the War, Waterhouse became President of the Royal Institute of British Architects) he was involved in mapping the terrain, patrolling and fighting the Bulgarian forces and covert operations, prior to the Bulgarian invasion of August 1917.

He was later transferred to Egypt and to Palestine, where he was involved in actions against the Turkish Army.

Waterhouse wrote 'A View of Palestine' in October 1917, comprising an account summarising the military action to capture Beersheba and several panoramic sketches of the topography of the Struma Valley. Waterhouse was awarded the Military Cross for his initial military mapping of northern Greece and yeomanry operations in the Struma Valley.