Orders, Decorations and Medals

The mounted group of eight miniature dress medals attributed to Brigadier-General R. C. W. Lukin, Indian Army, Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., gold and enamel, complete with top bar; India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Punjab Frontier 1897-8, Tirah 1897-8; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902; 1914 Star, with clasp; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919; General Service 1918, 1 clasp, Iraq, mounted court style as worn, minor contact marks, mainly extremely fine (8) £180-220

D.S.O. London Gazette 23 June 1915.

M.I.D. London Gazette 31 May 1915.

Robert Clarence Wellesley Lukin was born on 22 December 1870. After attending Sandhurst he was gazetted a 2nd Lieutenant in the Yorkshire Light Infantry, May 1890 and joined the regiment in India in September. Promoted to Lieutenant in May 1892, he was posted to the 9th Bengal Lancers (Hodson’s Horse) in June as an Officiating Squadron Officer. With the unit he saw action in the Chitral campaign of 1895 and the Tirah campaign of 1897-98, in the latter serving in the Bara Valley operations, 7-14 December 1897. In May 1901 he was promoted to Captain. Posted to South Africa, he served in the Boer War as a Captain in the 32nd Squdron (Lancashire Hussars) Imperial Yeomanry, 30 November 1900-31 May 1902. He was promoted to Major in 1908 and was D.A.A.G. India, March 1913-September 1914 and D.A.A.G. with the Indian Corps in France, September 1914-September 1915. During his tenure in this post he was mentioned in despatches and awarded the Distinguished Service Order. Posted as A.Q.M.G. September 1915-July 1916, he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in May 1916 and attained the rank of Temporary Brigadier-General in September 1918. Lukin was promoted to Colonel in 1920. After serving in the Afghan War 1919 and the Arab rebellion, 1919-20, he retired in 1922. His final address was given as Lockram House, near Mortimer, Berkshire. Brigadier-General Lukin died on 23 October 1955. Sold with copied service papers, commission documents and other research.