Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War D.S.O. group of four to Reverend T. N. Tattersall, Army Chaplains’ Department

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with top bar slight enamel damage to wreath; 1914 Star, with copy clasp (Rev., A.C.D.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Rev., A.C.D.) good very fine and better (4) £800-1000

D.S.O. London Gazette 4 June 1917: ‘Temporary Chaplain to the Forces, 2nd Class, Army Chaplains’ Department.’

M.I.D. London Gazette 1 January 1916, 4 January 1917 and 23 July 1917.

Thomas Newell Tattersall was born on 12 July 1876 and educated at Brighton Grove College, Manchester. As a Baptist Minister, he commenced his ministry at Maryport in 1905 and served at Fulham, London in 1909 and Fuller, Kettering in 1913. With the outbreak of war he was appointed a Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class and entered the France / Flanders theatre of war on 9 November 1914. During the course of the war, he was three times mentioned in despatches and created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order and was advanced to Chaplain 2nd Class prior to relinquishing his appointment with the A.C.D. in November 1917. His post war appointments included Adelaide Place, Glasgow in 1921, Mount Pleasant, Swansea in 1924 and St. Clair Avenue, Toronto in 1930. He was latterly Pastor at Marshall Street Church, Edinburgh before his death in 1943. Sold with copied service papers and research; an original photograph and copy of one of his publications, ‘The Man who Refused a Kingdom, a Study in Temptations.’