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Tisdall, Arthur Walderne St Clair
UK, Graduates Of Cambridge University Who Served During World War 1, 1914-1918
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Fold3_Team · 31 Oct 2023
Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29530/supplements/3515. During the landing from the SS River Clyde at V Beach in the Gallipoli Peninsula on the 25th April 1915, Sub-Lieutenant Tisdall, hearing wounded men on the beach calling for assistance, jumped into the water and, pushing a boat in front of him, went to their rescue. He was, however, obliged to obtain help, and took with him on two trips Leading Seaman Malia and on other trips Chief Petty Officer Perring and Leading Seamen Curtiss and Parkinson. In all Sub-Lieutenant Tisdall made four or five trips between the ship and the shore, and was thus responsible for rescuing several wounded men under heavy and accurate fire. Owing to the fact that Sub-Lieutenant Tisdall and the platoon under his orders were on detached service at the time, and that this Officer was killed in action on the 6th May, it has only now been possible to obtain complete information as to the individuals who took part in this gallant act. Of these, Leading Seaman Fred Curtiss, O.N. Dev. 1899 has been missing since the 4th June 1915.
Fold3_Team · 31 Oct 2023
Information: Enlisted 15/01/1914. Drake Battalion A/189, 22/08/1914-06/10/1914. Discharged to Commission (14 Star Roll = Sub- Lieutenant Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Anson Battalion at Antwerp). A Civil Servant. Home address: 58 Addison Way, Golders Green, London NW. Born July 21st 1890, in Bombay, India, the second son of the Reverend Dr. William St Clair Tisdall, Vicar of Deal, and Marian Louisa (nee Gray) Tisdall, of St George's Vicarage, Deal, Kent. Brother of Lieutenant John Theodore St Clair Tisdall, 1st Battalion The King's Liverpool Regiment, killed in action 08/08/1916, at Guillemont, Somme sector, France. 1914 Star issued to Father 28/01/1919, clasp issued 14/11/1921. Enrolled at Trinity College, Cambridge,1909. Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge. Bachelor of Arts. Double First Class Classical Honours. Chancellor's Gold Medallist, Cambridge. First Class Clerk, Civil Service (Treasury). I.C. 38/721.