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Eric McKellar Watt : ウィキペディア英語版 | Eric McKellar Watt Alexander 'Eric' McKellar Watt, OBE (16 March 1920 – 12 July 2001) was a Scottish entrepreneur, the founder and Chairman of McKellar Watt Limited, at one time Britain's largest privately owned meat processing company. The company became known for its slogan 'McKellar Watt for Meatiness'.〔 In 1983 he was awarded an OBE in recognition of his business achievements.〔 ==Early life==
Watt was born in Glasgow and educated at Glasgow Academy and Strathallan School in Perthshire. At the age of nineteen he volunteered to join the Army as a captain in the Royal Army Service Corps.〔 He served with Bernard Montgomery's Eighth Army in North Africa, Palestine and Greece. Whilst on patrol in Greece in 1942 he and his patrol were caught by sniper fire.〔 McKellar Watt suffered severe head injuries and gunshot wounds to his legs.〔 His men thought he was dead but emergency treatment saved his life.〔 He spent eighteen months in an army hospital in Killearn having his body rebuilt and learning to walk again.〔
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