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Name: SALE, Alexander Gordon
Photo Source: De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour
Birth Date: 14 Nov 1894 Barrow on Trent, Derbyshire
Death Date: 9 Mar 1915 Utegi, German East Africa, killed in action
First Date: 1914
Last Date: 1915
Profession: Pauling & Co. contractors for railway to Magadi
Married: No
Book Reference: EAMR, CWGC, Gazette
War Service: WW1 with EAMR - C Sqdn. 29/8/14 - 1/9/14 - To EA Pioneers, KAR Jan 1915
School: Horris Hill; Repton
General Information:
CWGC - Dar es Salaam War Cemetery - Lieutenant Alexander Gordon Sale, Special List attd. 3rd King's African Rifles. 9th March 1915. Age 20. Son of Richard Sale, late of Barrow-on-Trent, England. 8.D.12
Gazette - 11/8/1915 - Appt. - KAR - Temporary Commission - To be Lieutenant - Pioneer Alexander Gordon Sale
De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour Lieut. in King's African Rifles, younger son of Richard Sale, of Barrow on Trent, Derbyshire, JP, by his wife Mary Alexina, daughter of Alexander Gordon, of Ashley, Forfarshire, DL, JP. Born Barrow on Trent, County Derby, 14 November 1894, educated Horris Hill and Repton School, went to British East Africa in Feb 1914, and was on the staff of Pauling and Co, contractors for the railway to the Magadi soda lake, but on the outbreak of war in August of the same year joined a Pioneer Corps and was engaged in laying telegraph wires and making transport roads, until he was given a commission in the King's African Rifles in January 1915. He was killed in action during his first engagement at Utegi, Nyanza Province, British East Africa 9 March 1915. He was unmarried. Buried on the border of German East Africa. While at Repton he was head of his house, a school prefect and a sergeant in the OTC and obtained his colours for both cricket and football.