[3] He married Louisa Mary Bode, eighteen years his senior, in 1877 at Amritsar in India, she having travelled out from her home on the Isle of Wight to join him.

On 19 September 1882 Major Tucker arrived in Bombay accompanied by three officers intending to spread the teachings of The Salvation Army in India.

The couple had nine children, Frederick Kristodas (who attended Monkton Combe School in Somerset in 1906-07), Catherine Motee, Lucy Mina, Herbert, John and Muriel; three others, William, Evangeline and Bramwell Tancred[7][8] died in infancy.,[9][note 1][note 2] His new wife also became ill during the time of their stay in India and so in 1891 the Booth-Tuckers returned to International Headquarters in London as joint Commissioners for Foreign Affairs.

[3][6] In 1919, suffering from ill-health, Booth-Tucker returned to England,[11] but his relationship with his former brother-in-law General Bramwell Booth had cooled over the years and he was never again appointed to a senior command.

He retired from active service in 1924, but with his wife continued to lead many spiritual campaigns during the 1920s in Britain and Europe and National Congresses in the Baltic States and Finland.

In 1893 he became the first editor of The Officer magazine, and wrote several books, including a Life of Catherine Booth (1892);[12] The Consul (1903), and Muktifauj (1923), the story of the first forty years of The Salvation Army in India and Ceylon.