Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Nine: Lieutenant Colonel R. A. Warters, Indian Medical Service and Royal Army Medical Corps, who was taken prisoner of war by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore, 15 February 1942, and aged 52 worked in a medical capacity at Changi POW camp, before surviving a year of being sick at Kranji

British War and Victory Medals (Capt. R. A. Warters.) initial ‘r’ officially corrected on VM; India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1937-39 (Lt. Col. R. A. Warters, I.M.S.); 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45; India Service Medal; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, generally good very fine (9) £400-£500

Reginald Arthur Warters was born in January 1890, and educated at Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities, M.B. Ch.B. Ed. 1915. He was commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps in January 1916, served in the French theatre of war from 10 April 1916, and served as Temporary Captain January 1917 - March 1920.

Warters advanced to Major in January 1928, and subsequently transferred to the Indian Medical Service. He advanced to Lieutenant Colonel and served with the I.M.S. in the Malaya campaign 1941-42, before being taken prisoner of war by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore, 15 February 1942. Warters was imprisoned at Changi Jail, Singapore - where he worked in a medical capacity, February 1942 - May 1944. He was moved to Kranji as a hospital patient, and stayed there as such May 1944 - September 1945.