The Great War Medal Collection of Robin H.J. Darvell

British War Medal 1914-20 (2-Lt. S. Lukis); Victory Medal 1914-19 (Capt. T. S. Lukis) nearly extremely fine (2) £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Great War Medal Collection of Robin H.J. Darvell.

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S. Lukis - a 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion Bengal Northern Railway Regiment, Auxiliary Forces India. This was his only medal for the Great War. With copied m.i.c. He is believed to be Sydney Lukis, brother of the following:

Theordore Stewart Lukis was the second son of Surgeon General Sir Charles Pardey Lukis, K.C.S.I., M.D., F.R.C.S. Eng., Director General of the Indian Medical Service. He was born in Cawnpore, India and was educated at Tonbridge School, at Park House, from September 1899 to July 1902. In 1904 he gained an Entrance Scholarship in Science to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and in 1906 gained the Harvey Prize in Physiology. In 1906 he was an Assistant Demonstrator in Biology. He gained a M.B. and B.S., London, 1910; M.D. and Gold Medallist, 1912; M.R.C.P., 1913. He was a Fellow of the Medical Society of London; Assistant Physician to the Queen’s Hospital for Children and Demonstrator in Physiology at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, and sometime House Physician to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street and House Physician and Ophthalmic House Surgeon at St. Bartholomew’s. In his spare time he was active in social work at Toynbee Hall, the Oxford Settlement in Whitechapel and the Boy Scout Movement at Hoxton. As soon as the war broke out, he gave up his medical career and was gazetted an infantry lieutenant on 1 September 1914. He encouraged his Boy Scouts to enlist and induced some 80 or so to join up. Serving as a Lieutenant in the 13th Battalion London Regiment, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 10 February 1915. He was wounded at Port Arthur, south of Neuve Chapelle on 12 March 1915, when a shell exploding in his trench inflicted terrible injuries and almost buried him alive. He was taken to No. 7 Stationary Hospital at Boulogne and was able to dictate to the Chaplain a cheerful letter home, but on 15 March he succumbed to his injuries and died; the same day he was advanced to the rank of Captain. He was buried in the Boulogne Eastern Cemetery. Memorial Services were held on 19 March at St. Bartholomew the Less, officiated by the Dean of St. Bartholomew’s, and another on 20 March at Toynbee Hall, Whitechapel. With copied research.