Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Alfred and Jane Gale. The 1911 census records, Alfred Gale, married 23 years and head of the family, an Assurance Agent, born 1860 in Portishead, Somerset, and his wife Jane, born 1865 in Westbourne, London. The children were Alfred, a Domestic Groom, born 1889 in Camberwell, London, Henry James, a Dairyman, born 1891 in Otterbourne, Hants. and Edwin George, a Schoolboy, born in Weymouth, Dorset. The family were residing at 32, Scotland Road, Little Bowden, Leics.