Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Colonel T. R. Tabuteau, 1st Madras Fusiliers

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (2nd Lieut., 1st Madras Fusrs.); Abyssinia 1867-68 (Lieut., Madras Staff Corps) light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (2) £350-400

Thomas Rooke Tabuteau was born in Dublin on 7 April 1838, and was educated at Cheltenham College and The Priory, Croydon. He was admitted to Addiscombe in November 1855, graduated as a 2nd Lieutenant in December 1857, and joined the 1st Madras Fusiliers on 5 April 1858. He served with the 1st Madras Fusiliers in the suppression of the Bengal Mutiny in 1858, including the Oude campaign and the affair at the fort of Koli (Medal). He served with the 3rd Bombay Native Infantry in the Abyssinian expedition in 1868 (Medal). He became Wing Commander, 28th Madras Infantry in 1877, 2nd in command 1888, and Commandant of the Bangalore Rifle Volunteers in 1892, being promoted to Colonel in December 1895. Colonel Tabuteau died at Bangalore on 1 November 1919.