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Profiles of the men of The Tigers, and the medals which they earned.
Sergeant George Gamble
George Gamble was born in Nottingham in 1914. In 1932, at the height
of the Great Depression, Gamble enlisted into the Leicestershire Regiment. he gave his trade as Builder's Labourer, but work
must have been thin on the ground at that time. He was soon posted to the 2nd battalion, which was serving in Palestine during
the Arab revolt. Upon the outbreak of the Second World War, the battalion served in the Western Desert before in May 1941
it was posted to Crete. When the island eventually fell to German paratroopers, George Gamble was among those men who were
cut off and made their escape overland to the southern coast. Later in the war, as a Corporal, Gamble served as a Chindit
in Burma, where he earned the nickname 'mudrat'. In the 1950s he served in Korea before his final posting took him to Cyprus. He left the army in 1956 and returned to Nottingham, working for computer firm
Plessy. He died in 1996.
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