When David Dale was born in September 1913, in Aston, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Rueben Dale, was 29 and his mother, Rachel Dunkey, was 29. He lived in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom in 1939. He died in October 2000, in Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 87.
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Outbreak of World War I. UK enters hostilities against Germany. Grueling trench warfare in Belgium and France.
After Germany declared war Russia, Britain entered The Great War and declared war on Germany on August 4, 1914. The war ended on November 11, 1918, as Germany signed an armistice that brought fighting to a halt.
Britain entered the Second World War as war was declared on Germany on September 3, 1939. World War II came to an end after the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which killed 140,000 people. Less than a week later, the Japanese surrendered and the war officially ended on August 15, 1945.
English: from Middle English dal, dale, daile ‘dale, valley’ (Old English dæl, reinforced in northern England by the cognate Old Norse dalr), a topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, or a habitational name from any of numerous minor places called with this word, such as Dale in Cumbria and Yorkshire.
Norwegian: habitational name from a common farm named from Old Norse dali, the dative case of dalr ‘valley’.
Americanized form of German Diehl .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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