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Personal data

  • Manx
  • Isle of Man
  • Bayswater
  • Son of Major J. Quayle, Knockaloe, Isle of Man
  • Kings College School London; Camborne School of Mines (Cornwall)
  • Mining engineer
  • Ref. South African Roll of Honour

Military service

  • November 1915
  • Captain
  • M C
  • 255th Tunnelling Coy. Royal Engineers
  • MC 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in two occasion, in entering a dug-out which had been wrecked by hostile shell fire, extricating the victims and carrying them to
    the dressing station, three hundred yards
    away, under heavy and continuous shell fire.
    By this prompt and gallant action he and his
    N.C.O. were the direct means of saving many
    lives, as the place was again hit directly after
    his work was completed. He has frequently
    proved himself an extremely gallant officer,
    with an utter disregard for danger when
    assisting others.(London Gazette, September 1917)

Death

  • Killed in action
  • 28
  • XXVII - A - 19

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