Career
He was created a knight in 1936 during Colonial service in Tanganyika Territory. He began a Geological survey in the German colony of Tanganyika in 1908 but was obliged to return to Australia during the First World War. During this time he found employment as a temporary Lecturer in geology at the University of Adelaide, replacing Sir Douglas Mawson who had left for Britain to help the war effort.
Between 1917 and 1918 Teale took up a research fellowship at the University of Melbourne.
After the war Teale returned to East Africa as part of the geological survey until 1936. Thiele/Teale also did some work in New Zealand with Albert Ernest Kitson and later helped Kitson discover the first diamonds in the Gold Coast.
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