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Personal data

• Name GALE
• Initials AW
• First name ARTHUR WITHERBY
• Place of birth Winchester
• Country England
• Family Son of Alfred Christopher and Sophia Eliza Gale, of Winchester.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 15 August 1914, Woolwich
• Rank Captain
• Medals D S O
• Regiment and unit 3rd Trench Mortar Bty. Royal Field Artillery
• Army - Corps - Division 3rd Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Attached or transferred from 2nd - Life Guards
• Other data related to military career To France 28 October 1914

Death

• Wounded 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).
• Type of wounds Killed in action
• Date of death 10 April 1916
• Died at the age of 41
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery V - A - 26

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