Private Edward George TEASDALE (201805)
16th (Service) Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment (3rd Birmingham City)

Date of birth: 16th January 1885
Date of death: 17th March 1918

Killed in action aged 33
Buried at Giavera British Cemetery Plot I Row D Grave 2
He was born in Leicester on the 16th of January 1885, the elder son of Edward Henry Teasdale, manufacturer, and Fanny Henrietta Knox (nee Sedley) of “Heathfield”, London Road, Leicester and later of Trinity Mansion, Eastbourne.

He was educated at the Junior King's School from January 1898 and the King's School Canterbury from September 1898 to December 1901.

On the outbreak of war he was living at Home Farm, Upton near Banbury in Oxfordshire where he was studying farming. He enlisted in the 1/5th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment at Rugby and later transferred to the 16th Battalion of his regiment.

The battalion left France for the Italian front on the 27th of November 1917 and by March 1918 were preparing to cross the River Piave but the operation was abandoned. Edward Teasdale was killed on the day of the battalion's handover of their trenches at Arcade to the 3rd Battalion, 215th Regiment of the Italian Tevere Brigade.

His brother, Lieutenant Eric Henry Teasdale (OKS) 7th Depot Company Army Service Corps, was killed on active service on the 12th of January 1917.

They are both commemorated on their parents' grave at the Methodist Church, Uppingham Road, Leicester. In 1921 his mother donated a large sum to the Leicestershire and Rutland University (now the University of Leicester) on its foundation. She also left a bequest to the university in 1931 and requested that a memorial tablet be created to remember her two sons. The tablet was placed on the Fielding Johnson Building at the university.
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