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Henry John Gordon Gale
Brigadier Henry John Gordon Gale Distinguished Service Order, DSO & Bar (3 July 1883 – 12 August 1944) was a British Army officer. Gale was the son of a colonel in the Royal Engineers. He was educated at Malvern College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and was commissioned second lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery (later Royal Artillery) in December 1902. He was promoted lieutenant in December 1905. In 1908, he was posted to the Hong Kong-Singapore Battalion and between November 1912 and 1916, he served with the Indian Mountain Artillery in the North-West Frontier Province (1901–1955), North-West Frontier Province of India. He was promoted Captain (British Army and Royal Marines), captain in 1914. From 1916 to 1918, he served on the Western Front (World War I), Western Front, where he was promoted Major (rank), major in June 1917, was wounded twice, mentioned in dispatches twice, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in June 1918. Gale then ...
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Malvern College
Malvern College is an Independent school (United Kingdom), independent coeducational day and boarding school in Malvern, Worcestershire, Malvern, Worcestershire, England. It is a public school (United Kingdom), public school in the British sense of the term and is a member of the Rugby Group and of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. Since its foundation in 1865,Malvern College to reopen as normal after serious fire
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