He served in the Middle East in Australian and British units, was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Egyptian Order of the Nile.
The Egyptian monarch, King Fuad, was impressed with Tait and granted him the rank of kaimachan (lieutenant-colonel) and in 1937 made him a commander of the Order of the Nile.
Order of the British Empire | Order of Australia | Law & Order | Order of the Bath | Order of St Michael and St George | Dominican Order | Royal Victorian Order | Nile | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Distinguished Service Order | Order of Canada | Order of the Garter | New Order | Order of Saint Benedict | Order of Friars Minor Capuchin | Order of the Crown of Italy | order | Independent Order of Odd Fellows | Royal Guelphic Order | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | White Nile | Order of St. Olav | Order of St. Gregory the Great | Venerable Order of Saint John | Order of the Star of India | Corinthian order | Order of the Indian Empire | Order of the Rising Sun | Order of St. Anna | Blue Nile |