Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Captain C. B. Tugwell, Dorset Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (Capt., Dorset Rgt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Capt., Dorset Rgt.); Turkey, Order of Medjidie, 4th Class breast badge, silver, gold and enamel, last with slight enamel damage, good very fine; medals extremely fine (3) £400-500

Claude B. Tugwell was born on 9 May 1863. Commissioned as a Lieutenant from the Militia into the 1st Battalion Dorset Regiment on 5 May 1885. Promoted a Captain in April 1892, he left the Army on that date to take employment with the Egyptian Constabulary until October 1899. In recognition of his services to the Egyptian Government, Tugwell was awarded the Order of the Medjidie (London Gazette 30 July 1895). On the outbreak of the Boer War, Tugwell joined the Reserve of Officers, retaining his previous rank of Captain, he then transferred to the 2nd Battalion Dorset Regiment. During the Boer War he was present in the operations in the Relief of Ladysmith, 17-24 January 1900; at the action at Spion Kop, 5-7 February 1900; Vaal Kranz; operations on Tugela Heights, 14-27 February 1900; and the action at Pieters Hill. He served in Natal, March-June 1900, including the action at Laing’s Nek, 6-9 June; in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony, June 1900. Captain Tugwell retired from the Army at the end of the Boer War. With the onset of the Great War he served as a Staff Officer attached to the 3rd Battalion Dorset Regiment in Sierra Leone. He was admitted to the Queen Alexandria Military Hospital, London, and died on 29 March 1917, aged 53 years. Sold with copied research including copied m.i.c., roll extracts and death certificate