Captain (Commodore 2nd class) Newell Herbert Gale

1887 - 1942  (54 years)

• Name	Newell Herbert Gale
  Title	Captain (Commodore 2nd class)
  Born	8 Oct 1887	Lancashire
  Christened	18 Dec 1887	Everton St Benedict
  Gender	Male
  Died	22 Sept 1942	WW2 on board "Athelsultan"
  Buried	Shadycombe / Liverpool memorial
  Person ID	I1027	Salcombe
  Last Modified	30 Nov 2018

  
  

  Family	Ethel Cove,   b. 23 Aug 1890, Liverpool ,   d. 29 Nov1966, South Hams Hospital Kingsbridge
  Married	1912	Toxteth Park Lancashire
  Children	+ 1. Norman Evans Gale,   b. 23 Jan 1914, Toxteth Park Lancashire ,   d. 1944, Registered Kingsbridge  (Age 29 years)   2. Eric Gordon Gale,   b. 3 Jan 1918, Lancashire ,   d. 9 Nov 1945, WW2  (Age 27 years)
  Last Modified	14 Aug 2010
  Family ID	F347	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 8 Oct 1887 - Lancashire  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Salcombe Memorial WW2
  		Gale family headstone
  		Newell Herbert Gale

  
  

  Documents		Newell Herbert Gale Masters & Mates certificate
  		Newell Herbert Gale Merchant Seaman identity certificate

  
  

  Albums

  Casualties of WW2 (1)

  
  

• Notes

  Newell H Gale Commodore 2nd Class of Royal Naval Reserve HMS Eaglet died 22 Sept 1942 on board Athelsultan. He was awarded RD and DSO posthumously He is remembered on the Liverpool Naval Memorial and the Salcombe war memorial. Captain (Commodore, 2nd Class) Newell Herbert Gale DSO of the Royal Naval Reserve, HMS Eaglet. Son of William and Elizabeth Gale; husband of Ethel Gale of Salcombe. Born in Lancashire in 1887. Died on board the Athelsultan while acting as a convoy commodore sailing between Sidney AU and the UK. Killed 22 September 1942 aged 54 when his ship sank immediately after being torpedoed by U-617, Awarded the DSO and the RD* *The Decoration for Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve (RD) was a medal awarded in the Naval Reserve to officers with at least fifteen years of active duty.