ABSTRACT

Tedder left England for Germany on 22 June 1912 and enrolled at the Institut Tilly in Lichterfelde, a suburb of Berlin.1 He was to study German there for eight weeks, before returning to Cambridge in October. A year later, he remembered ‘sitting outside that café at the back of the Institut in an awkward silence (that lasted for three weeks!)’, listening to other young men talking ‘what even then I knew was the most atrocious German’. As it happened, Tedder never mastered the language either. Instead, he fell in love with an Australian fellow-student, Rosalinde Maclardy. Truly in love: it rapidly became on his part (and later on hers) a love of quite exceptional intensity, which lasted until Rosalinde’s death more than 30 years later.