The Western Front Distinguished Conduct Medal to Private A. Teasdale

The Western Front Distinguished Conduct Medal to Private A. Teasdale, 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards: D.C.M., George V (11768 PTE A. TEASDALE. 3/ C. GDS.), for gallantry in re-capturing a trench in the vicinity of the Hohenzollern Redoubt on the 8th October 1915, good very fine.

London Gazette (16/11/15): For great bravery and resource on the 8th October, 1915, near Loos. The enemy, having made an attack with great determination along the trenches occupied by his battalion, were successful in taking the trench on the left of that occupied by Private Teasdale and five other men, and came pouring into it. The situation was most critical. Realising what had happened he, accompanied by the other men, sprang forward and faced the enemy, driving them with bombs foot by foot down the trench, and recapturing the whole of it. This they did with the greatest gallantry in face of a determined opposition, clearing out of the trench at least ten times their number, and thus saving a critical situation.