A place of silent gloom
This is where I love to dwell
It is my husband's tomb
In ever
Affectionate and Loving Memory
OF MY BELOVED HUSBAND
AND OUIR DEAREST FATHER
GEORGE D. TEASDALE
WHO PASSED AWAY ON
JANUARY 30, 1937
IN HIS 68TH YEAR
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George's widow Adela Rose Teasdale died
in her 68th year in 1942.
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GONE BUT NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN(Nishatganj Cemetery, Lucknow)
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George Dunsteadt Teasdale ( NW Rly Guard) and Adela Rose Teasdale were the parents of
George Horatio Hashman Teasdale (b. April 4, 1900 died March 1966) a Police Inspector who arrested Sapper Henry Hart, an army deserter, who, on the night of the 23rd May 1946, shot and killed two British army officers, Maj James William Ewart Williamson and Lieut Arthur William Masters, on Outram Road in Lucknow. The officers, attached to the Special Investigation Branch of the Military Police, were in search
of Hart.
George HH Teasdale was awarded the King's Police Medal and later posted to Delhi as Chief Inspector. After he retired he moved to Portsmouth, South England, where he lived till his death in 1966, according to his grandson, Paul Teasdale.
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Folklore has it that Hart, taking advantage of the anti-British sentiment that was growing in India, practically on the eve of Independence, attended court attired in Indian dress and wearing a Gandhi topi. Further, the ammunition did not match the pistol. He was acquitted.
Sapper Henry Hart was later deported
back to Britain.
(Newspaper cutting April 1, 1947
Gloucester Echo)
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