Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. Illius, Indian Medical Service

1914-15 Star (Major, I.M.S.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S. Persia (Major); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1919-21 (Lt. Col. John Warwick Illius, I.M.S.) mounted court style for wear, good very fine (5) £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell.

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John Warwick Illius was born in Campo Grande, Bahia, Brazil on 9 October 1875, the son of John Guillermo Illius, Superintendent of the Bahia Steam Navigation Company. He received his medical training at St. Bart’s and gained the M.R.C.S. 1900 and L.R.C.P. Lond. 1900. Entering the Indian Medical Service, he was appointed a Lieutenant in July 1902; Captain in July 1905; Major in January 1914 and Lieutenant-Colonel in January 1922. Appointed a F.R.C.S. Ed. in 1912. Served in the Great War in France and Belgium, 1914-15; Balkans and Egypt, 1915-16, and Persia and the Persian Gulf, 1916-19. Illius retired on 4 September 1925.

With some copied research.