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  • Winchester
  • England
  • Son of Alfred Christopher and Sophia Eliza Gale, of Winchester.

Military service

  • 15 August 1914, Woolwich
  • Captain
  • D S O
  • 3rd Trench Mortar Bty. Royal Field Artillery
  • 2nd - Life Guards
  • To France 28 October 1914

Death

  • Artillery Reconnaissance Patrol; anti-aircraft fire; Wijtschate-Hollebeke; "Parasol Morane received direct hit on fuselage, east of Wytschaete, hit at 11.30 a.m.; tail fell of about 4,000 feet; machine last seen falling nose first" ; Gale was observer; LtCol Lewis, the pilot was also killed in action (and buried in Lijssenthoek).
  • Killed in action
  • 41
  • V - A - 26

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