Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1887-89 (Major T. D. W. Dunn 1st. Bn. Hamps. R.) nearly extremely fine £240-£280

Thomas Duncan William Dunn was born at Reading, Berkshire, on 15 October 1846 and was commissioned Ensign in the 62nd Regiment of Foot, by purchase, on 10 November 1865. He was promoted Lieutenant on 15 February 1868, and served with them in India from 31 December of that year. Promoted Captain on 5 January 1876, he exchanged into the 37th Regiment of Foot on 13 October 1877, and after a spell as Adjutant of the 2nd Hampshire Corps Volunteers, served with the 1st Battalion in Burma from 18 November 1888 to 31 March 1889. He was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel on 21 April 1889, and retired on 20 November of that year. He died on 22 March 1899.

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