The splendid group of orders and medal to Dr James Ferguson Lees C.B.E.

The splendid group of orders and medal to Dr James Ferguson Lees C.B.E., Director General of Public Health, Egypt (1920-25), and Acting Under-Secretary of State 1920-22: The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander's neck badge, Britannia type, gilt and enamels, some verdigris, otherwise good very fine or better; Queen's South Africa Medal, second type, 3 clasps: Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901 (J.F. LEES. SURGEON.), impressed in plain capitals, good very fine; 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal (J.F. LEES.), mounted for wearing with the QSA, good very fine or better; Turkey: The Order of the Medjidieh, third class neck badge, silver, silver gilt and enamels, 69mm, with ribbon, extremely fine or nearly so; Egypt: the Order of Ismail, Grand Officer's neck badge and breast star, badge with ribbon, gold, silver, silver gilt and enamels, by Lattes, extremely fine or better and very scarce; Egypt: the Order of the Nile, Commander's neck badge, Grand Officer's neck badge and breast star, silver, gilt and enamels, badges with ribbons, star and one badge marked for Lattes, light wear to centres, otherwise about extremely fine; together with a corresponding group of mounted dress miniatures, warrants and licences to wear for the various orders, the Duke of Connaught's Medal (masonic) in box, and the recipient's personal journal of the Boer War (March 23rd to November 28th 1900 - and with an entry concerning the duties of an Orderly Medical Officer dated October 28th 1899).

James Ferguson Lees was born on the 29th January 1872 and educated at the University of Glasgow (M.B., C.M. 1893). He served in the South African War on the Hospital Ship Spartan, at a base hospital in the East End of London, and in the field attached to the 1st Battalion Connaught Rangers. Having become an M.D. in 1902, he joined the Egyptian Government Service as Port Health Officer for Alexandria in 1908, rising to become Director General in 1920, and acting as Under-Secretary of State from July to October 1920. He served in the Great War as Inspector of Prisoner of War Camps in Egypt, E.E.F. He died on the 12th January 1935.