India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (Lieut....

India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (Lieut. Colonel J. I. Routh. R.A.M.C.) mounted with a portrait image of the recipient and housed in a contemporary glazed frame, nearly extremely fine £200-£240 --- Jules Isham Routh was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1852. Educated at Edinburgh University he qualified Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians at Edinburgh 3 July 1877 and passed in 10th place at the Army Medical School, Netley, being commissioned Surgeon in the Army Medical Department at Manchester 3 February 1878. He was presented to the Prince of Wales at the levée held at St James’s Palace, London, on 17 May 1878. Posted to the station hospital at Secunderabad, India, this was followed by general duty in the British Burmah Division in December 1885. Returning to India to do duty at the station hospital Belgaum in August 1886 he was promoted to Surgeon-Major, Medical Staff, on 3 February 1890. In the 1891 Census he is shown on the Staff of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley. Posted back to India, Routh was one of the first medical officers to volunteer for duty during the outbreak of the plague in Bombay during 1896-97. Joining the Tirah Field Force he was placed in medical charge of No. 12 British Field Hospital at Rawal Pindi. The Army Medical Department (officers) and the Medical Staff Corps (other ranks) combined to form the Royal Army Medical Corps and Surgeon-Major J. I. Routh was promoted to Brigade Surgeon ranking as Lieutenant-Colonel in the newly formed corps on 3 February 1898. Further promoted to Surgeon-Colonel and stationed in Bombay he was placed on half-pay on account of ill health in January 1906 and retired on 29 March 1909, after a total service of 31 years. He retired to Cheltenham where he died on 13 January 1919, aged 66. Sold with copied research.