Orders, Decorations and Medals

Ten: Lieutenant-Colonel G. T. Tait, Indian Army, late Royal Air Force and Northumberland Fusiliers

1914 Star, with clasp (2 Lieut.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt., R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, these unnamed; Volunteer Force Long Service, G.V.R. (Capt., E.B. Ry. Bn., A.F.I.) impressed naming, mounted court style as worn, very fine and better (10) £350-450

Gerald George Wynne Trevredyn Tait was born on 10 May 1891. He was commissioned a Temporary 2nd Lieutenant in the Northumberland Fusiliers in September 1914, employed as an Interpreter, and was appointed a Temporary Captain in September 1915. In May 1916 he was appointed a General Staff Officer Grade 3 and transferred to the General List but was transferred back to the Northumberland Fusiliers with the rank of Captain in August the same year. In January 1917 he was specially appointed a Staff Lieutenant 2nd Class and transferred to the General List. In March 1918 he relinquished his special appointment and was appointed a General Staff Officer Grade III for liaison duties with the French Army. In May 1918 he was appointed a Staff Officer 3rd Class with the Royal Air Force with the rank of Captain.

Captain Tait was placed on the Unemployed List in 1919 and in the following year was appointed a Captain in the Bengal Nagpur Railway Regiment, attaining the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1929. He transferred to the General List in 1933 with the rank of Honorary Colonel. With the onset of war he obtained an Emergency Commission in the Indian Army and was ranked as a Temporary Captain in September 1941. Captain Tait served as a Staff Officer with the 11th Indian Division and on 15 February 1942 was captured by the Japanese in Malaya. For his wartime services in Italy he was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 19 July 1945). Colonel Tait died in Crediton, Devon on 13 February 1954. With copied research. Great War M.I.D. not confirmed.