Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War group of five awarded to Dr John Warnock, C.M.G., M.D., Director of Lunatic Asylums in Egypt

1914-15 Star (J. Warnock) [no unit]; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (J. Warnock); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, these unnamed, mounted for wear, extremely fine (5) £140-180

John Warnock was born in Maldon, Victoria, Australia in 1864 and was educated at Horton College, Tasmania and Edinburgh University. Gained the medical degrees M.B., C.M., B.Sc., M.D., M.R.C.S. He was employed in Egypt from 1895 to 1923 and was appointed Director of the Government Hospital for the Insane, Cairo, in 1895; Lecturer of Mental Diseases, Cairo Medical School in 1910 and Director of the Lunacy Division, Ministry of the Interior, in Egypt, 1914. During the Great War he continued to serve in Egypt as Consultant on Mental Diseases to the British Forces and commanded the Army Hospital for Mental Diseases, 1915. In recognition of his services as Director of the Lunatic Asylums in Egypt, he was awarded the C.M.G. in 1917. Additionally awarded the Order of Osmania, 3rd Class, in 1910 and the Order of the Nile, 3rd Class, in 1924.

With copied m.i.c. and some service details.