Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War D.S.O. group of five awarded to Major G. H. Teall, 1st Lincolnshire Regiment, attached 1/6th Liverpool Regiment

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star (Capt. G. H. Teall. Linc. R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Major G. H. Teall.); French Croix de Guerre 1914-1917, with bronze star, mounted court style as worn, nearly extremely fine (5) £1400-1600

D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1918: ‘Capt., Lincolnshire Regiment’.

George Harris Teall was born in Nottingham on 24 October 1880, son of Sir Jethro Teall, F.R.S., F.R.G.S., and was educated at Dulwich College, and St John’s College, Cambridge. He was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery on 4 February 1903, and appointed Lieutenant in the Lincolnshire Regiment on 16 December 1906; Captain, 9 January 1914; Major, 4 July 1918. He served with the 1st Lincolns in France from 24 February 1915, and was afterwards attached, as Adjutant, to the 1/6th Liverpool Regiment. He was present at Loos in 1915, the Somme in 1916, and at the Hindenburg Line in 1918 (Despatches four times, D.S.O., and French Croix de Guerre). He was appointed Adjutant of the 5th Lincolns after the war, upon that battalion’s reconstitution, and contributed a chapter to the regimental history by Colonel T. E. Sandall, C.M.G., T.D., published in 1922. Major Teall died in London on 21 June 1939, aged 59.

Sold with a leather-cased set of Patience cards (two full packs complete with Jokers and spares), the inner flap inscribed in ink ‘Captain G. H. Teall, Adjt. 6th King’s Liverpool Regiment. Ypres 1915,’ and with accompanying note signed by the recipient and dated Library Lodge, Gibraltar, 26 January 1930: ‘This case of Patience cards and the accompanying booklet on Patience [booklet not present] were received of me in March 1915 when serving as Adjutant of the 6th King’s Liverpool Regt in the trenches in front of Ypres. They were carried on me throughout the Great War and constantly used throughout it.’

Sold together with a portrait photograph of the recipient when on the Staff of 32 Division.

The lot additionally includes a portrait photograph of the recipient when on the Staff of 32 Division.