Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (9543 Trumptr. A. F. Tutt 57th. Fd. By. R.A.) unofficial rivets between clasps, good very fine £180-£220

Archibald Frederick Tutt was born on 18 April 1880 and served as a Trumpeter with the 57th Field Battery, Royal Field Artillery during operations on the Punjab Frontier 1897-98. Subsequently emigrating to Canada, he married Miss Ellen Evoy Condie in Webbwood, Ontario, on 10 August 1910, but was tragically killed less than a year later on 4 June 1911 in a boating accident when fishing in the Georgian Bay- a bad squall came up and the boat capsized, killing all on board.