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"His life inspired in me a joy that shall outlast eternity". These are the words that Dorothy Sale chose for her husband's epitaph. Lt Richard Sale was just one of 257 men and women commemorated by the CWGC who were to die #OTD in 1918. Born in Atherstone, Warwickshire, he .../1
...was the second of four sons of a local solicitor. Educated locally at Packwood Haugh School he moved to Clifton College, Bristol for the final years of his education where he was a member of the School XI. When he left school in 1905 Richard joined his father's practice .../2
...and eventually became a solicitor (as indeed did at least two of his three other brothers). In 1913 he married the local vicar's daughter, Dorothy Northcott, but, unlike his younger brother Edward, who was commissioned into the Gloucesters in Oct 14, Richard did not.../3
...immediately volunteer for military service when the war was declared. (Edward would be killed on 25 Sep 15 whilst serving with the 10th Bn at Loos.) When Richard did join the Army on 27 May 15, he entered the Inns of Court OTC, commissioning into the Royal Horse Guards on.../4
...2 Oct 15. This left the youngest brother, John, who would eventually serve as a gunner with the RGA, and Alfred, the eldest. When conscription was introduced, Alfred would be given an exemption on the basis that he was the only full-time clerk in his father's law practice.../5
...(3 clerks having already joined up). This exemption lasted until May 17 and it is not clear today whether or not he was eventually called up; what is known, however, is that both Alfred and John survived the war. Richard sadly did not. Having acted as a sniping and .../6
...patrol officer for his regiment, by the Spring of 1917 Richard had become the brigade sniping officer. But in the following year he would die of wounds received during a raid on the enemy's lines. Richard Sale is buried at Tincourt New British Cemetery. He is remembered../7
... on the War Memorials at Atherstone and Clifton College. This is what I have gleaned about him from open sources on the Internet and the books on my shelves.
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