Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Major Luke Tunnard, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

1914-15 Star (Capt: L. Tunnard. Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. L. Tunnard.); Egypt, Order of the Nile, 4th Class breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamels; Khedive’s Sudan 1910-21, 2nd issue, 1 clasp, Zeraf 1913-14 (Capt. L. Tunnard. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) officially impressed naming, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine and rare (5) £1200-1500

Order of the Nile London Gazette 25 July 1916: ‘conferred by His Majesty the Sultan of Egypt in recognition of valuable services - Major Luke Tunnard, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, late Egyptian Army and Sudan Government Service.’

Only seven British officers and two N.C.Os received the clasp ‘Zeraf’.

Luke Tunnard was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, on 11 August 1900, becoming Lieutenant, 23 June 1902. Seconded for service with the Egyptian Army from 22 April 1909, and promoted to Captain, 22 January 1910. Served during the Great War in the Sudan 1914; Gallipoli, 3 June 1915 to 6 June 1916 (Wounded). Major Luke Tunnard died at sea in July 1926, aboard the P. & O. Rajputana three days after leaving Bombay.

Sold with copied m.i.c. which confirms Sudan Medal and clasp, and portrait photograph from the regimental chronicle.