Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

China 1857-60, 2 clasps, Taku Forts 1858, Pekin 1860 (Staff Asst. Surgn. J. Wiles), officially impressed naming, edge bruising and contact marks, good fine £300-350

Julius Wiles, who was born in July 1828, was appointed an Assistant Surgeon in the 89th Foot in November 1854 and was present in the attacks on Sebastopol on 18 June and 8 September 1855. Next actively engaged in the Indian Mutiny, he served as a Surgeon on the Staff and from August 1858 was employed in the force under Colonel Turner in the Behar District. Wiles transferred to the 5th Foot in March 1860, in which year he was present at the actions of Sinhu and Taku and at the surrender of Pekin, and, as a recently advanced Staff Surgeon, went on to serve with the British Ambulance in France during the Franco-Prussian War 1870-71. Shortly thereafter he gained an appointment in the Rifle Brigade and was embarked for the Gold Coast with the 2nd Battalion, where he served throughout the second phase of the Ashantee War in 1874, including the engagements at Amoaful and Ordahsu, and the capture of Coomassie. Wiles was placed on retired pay with the honorary rank of Deputy Surgeon-General in July 1883 and died in November 1906.