| Luard | Arthur | | Captain | He died of enteric at Winburg, ORC, February 5th, 1901, while serving on the Staff there. He was the only son of Captain H R Luard, Royal Engineers, was born December 1865, and educated at Wellington College, where he was in the Blucher, 1877-84. He entered the Northamptonshire Regiment from the Royal Military College in 1886, being promoted Captain in the 2nd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment in February 1898. Captain Luard went to South Africa, August 1900, and served in the Cape and Orange River Colonies up to the time of his death.
Source: Donner | East Yorkshire Regiment |
| Luard | Arthur John Hamilton | | Major | LUARD, ARTHUR JOHN HAMILTON, Major, was born 3 September 1861, at Waltair, India, son of Colonel George Francis Luard, Indian Staff Corps, and Jane, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Johnstone Hamilton, Indian Staff Corps. He was educated at Cheltenham College, and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He joined the Army 10 May 1882; took part in the Burmese Expedition, 1886-87 (Medal with clasp); served in Upper Burma, 1888-89, during operations in the Chin Hills (clasp). He was promoted Captain, 2nd Battalion Norfolk Regiment, 1889. He was Superintendent of Gymnasia 12 April 1897 to 14 December 1899; was promoted Major 9 September 1900. Major Luard served in South Africa, 1900-2 (was slightly wounded), as Assistant to Military Governor, Johannesburg; afterwards Assistant to Commissioner of Police, Johannesburg, 6 June 1900 to 19 November 1901, taking part in the operations in the Orange Free State, February to May 1900, including operations at Paardeberg (17 to 27 February); actions at Poplar Grove and Karee Siding; taking part in the operations in the Transvaal in May and June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg. He was mentioned in Despatches 10 September 1901; awarded two Medals and five clasps, and created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order [London Gazette, 27 September 1901]: "Arthur John Hamilton Luard, Major, Norfolk Regiment. In recognition of services during the operations in South Africa". The Insignia were sent to the GOC, Transvaal, 3 February 1903, and presented by the GOC the Forces in South Africa, at, Pretoria, 25 March 1903. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel 1 September 1908, and Colonel 6 April 1912, and retired 1 September 1912. Colonel Luard played five years for Gloucestershire CC, 1892-96, and two years for Hants County CC, 1897-98. He was a member of the MCC, Free Foresters, Incogniti and Hampshire Hogs. Captain Luard married, 15 October 1890, at Cheltenham, Rosa, daughter of Edmund Yates Peel, of Cheltenham, and they had one son, Edmund Arthur Peel Luard, born 31 July 1891.
Source: DSO recipients (VC and DSO Book) | Norfolk Regiment |
