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Regiment: Irish Guards.
Died: 01 September 1914 aged 39 in France. Killed in action.
Cemetery: Guards Grave Villers Cotterets Forest II 2
Born 22nd April 1875 in Mauritius. Son of Captain John Know Tisdall, R.E. and Jane Elizabeth Tisdall (nee Adams), Charlesfort, co. Meath.
Modern II—I.
Royal Irish Rifles (from Militia) 1900; Irish Guards 1901, Major
1914.
Great War. 1st Bn. Irish Guards.
Husband of Gwynneth May R. Tisdall.
'Major Tisdall was killed in the forest of Viller Cotterets on the 1st September 1914. The Irish Guards with the 2nd Coldstreams were holding the northern edge of the forest in a rear-guard action at a spot called Rond de la Reine. Two other officers of the regiment — Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. G. H. Morris and Major Crichton — were killed at the same time.
Major Tisdall was a remarkably fine violin player. Outside his profession his chief interests were dry fly fishing and motoring, in which he was one of the pioneers. He married, in 1911. Gwynneth May, only child of Charles Adshead Esq. and left two daughters.' (De Ruvigny).