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EDWARD R. HOME-GALL

1897 - 1974

Writing as: Edwin Dale, Judith Dale, Rupert Hall, Edward R. Home-Gall


Edward Home-Gall was born on or around 1897 in England. He was an extremely prolific writer, especially of short stories appearing in magazines in that country.

According to the website "Bear Alley": Edward joined the Amalgamated Press in 1914 as an office-boy. His first story appeared in the semi-religious weekly The Sunday Circle and his second, a football yarn, in the Boys’ Realm, then under the editorship of John Nix Pentelow. Although under age, he managed to join a Territorial Unit and enlisted in the Isle of White Rifles, taking part in the landing in Gallipoli, although was later invalided home with enteric. He made a full recovery and returned to fight in Messines where, as a Second Lieutenant with the Royal Fusiliers, he was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry in January 1918. He relinquished his commission on October 29, 1920, with the rank of Lieutenant.

Home-Gall wrote hundreds of stories for the Thomson papers—Rover, Wizard, Adventure—and also the later stories of Harry Lovell & Co. for H. A. Hinton’s School and Sport after Charles Hamilton refused to write any more due to non-payment (Home-Gall was also never paid).

His fortunes turned in 1923 when he sold a serial to R. T. Eves’ young paper, Champion. For the next thirty years he wrote three 5,000-7,000 word stories a week for Champion and Triumph plus stories for the annuals and elsewhere. He was the creator of the detective Colwyn Dane, and was especially noted for his speedway yarns, claiming that he wrote the first speedway story ever published in Britain. One reader in Australia, bored with his job as a car attendant on the railways, wrote to him asking how he could become a speedway rider and followed Home-Gall’s advice… Bluey Wilkinson was later recognised as one of the greatest riders ever known to the sport."



Series Books
Edwin Dale
 
Victor Gaunt Gaunt of the Khyber Pass (ss) (1932)
  Gaunt - Master Spy (ss) (1932)
  Gaunt the Master Spy in China (ss) (1935)
  Gaunt of the White Tong (ss) (1937)
 
Other The 40 m.p.h. Footer Stars (1932)
  The Arctic Castaways (1935)
  Broadside Boyd (1935)
  Bronco Dawson, The Cowboy Speed King (1932)
  The Challenge of the Red Domino (1938)
  The Country of No Escape (1937)
  Cyclone Zip, the Aussie Speedster (1936)
  Dare-Devils of the Dirt Track (1929)
  Dare-Devils of the Q Patrol! (1933)
  Don Sabre, the Desert Robin Hood (1939)
  The Flying Speedster (1934)
  From Bush to Speedway (1932)
  The Heavyweight Mountie (1935)
  The Hunchback of Stenmoor Stadium (1939)
  The Ice Aces of Haunted Valley (1938)
  Ice-King Kerry (1938)
  The Ice-Rink Avenger (1938)
  Ice-Rink Regan’s Timber Wolves (1938)
  The Ice-Rink Speedsters (1937)
  King Flame (1937)
  Lone-Hand Lawrence, the Aussie Speedster (1935)
  Mad to be a Speed Star (1934)
  The Rebel Speed Star (1937)
  Riders of the Phantom Speedster (1935)
  The Scapegrace Centre-Forward (1939)
  The Secret of Puck-Chaser Steele (1939)
  Skipper of the River Rebels (1936)
  Speed King of Monk’s Mechanical Circus (1934)
  The Speedster from Devil’s Island (1938)
  Speedsters of the Dirt Track (1931)
  The Speedway Circus Star (1933)
  Speedway Menace (1936)
  The Speedway Roughriders (1936)
  Stars of the Speedway (1931)
  Stunters of the Speedway (1933)
 
Judith Dale
 
Other Canadian Capers [Shirley Flight] (1961)
  Chinese Puzzle [Shirley Flight] (1961)
  Congo Rescue [Shirley Flight) (1959)
  Desert Adventure [Shirley Flight) (1958)
  The Diamond Smugglers [Shirley Flight) (1958)
  Fjord Adventure [Shirley Flight) (1960)
  The Flying Doctor [Shirley Flight) (1959)
  Flying Jet [Shirley Flight) (1961)
  The Great Bullion Mystery [Shirley Flight) (1959)
  Pacific Castaways [Shirley Flight) (1960)
  The Rajah’s Daughter [Shirley Flight) (1959)
  Shirley Flight in Hollywood [Shirley Flight) (1958)
  Shirley Flight, Air Hostess, In Hollywood [Shirley Flight) (1958)
  Storm Warning [Shirley Flight) (1961)
 
Rupert Hall
 
Victor Gaunt Gaunt Flying Spy (ss) (1933)
 
Other Air-Crazy Atkins (1935)
  The Big-Hit Blacksmith (1936)
  Boy Riders of the Stockyard (1930)
  The Caravan Rovers (1937)
  Castaways of Conspiracy Island (1936)
  Doomed to Devil Island! (1935)
  Flip’s Flying Flea (1938)
  Giraffe Jones The Hairpin Half-Back (1940)
  Hated by the Team! (1929)
  The Hobo Cup-Fighters (1936)
  The Hobo Footballers (1935)
  The Holdfast Hikers of the Amazon (1934)
  The Kid They Couldn’t Tame (1932)
  The Lad with the Lightning Left (1929)
  Mascot Ted (1926)
  The Masked Footballer (1934)
  The Millionaire Footballer (1935)
  The Mystery Man of the Legion (1933)
  The Mystery Six-Hitter from India (1940)
  No Team Like the Trojans! (1931)
  The Phantom Avenger (1934)
  Play Up, the Linnets! (1929)
  The Pro from Nowhere (1929)
  Racer Dan of the Whirlwind Wheelers (1938)
  Rough Diamond Rudd of the Fighting Fusiliers! (1934)
  Stick it, Cowboy Ken! (1929)
  To Victory with the Tanks! (1933)
  True to his Colours (1931)
  Unlucky Mike (1939)
  Wanderers of the Wild (1933)
  War Hawks o’ Flanders (1930)
  The Youngest Pro in the Country! (1931)
 
Edward R. Home-Gall
 
Victor Gaunt Victor Gaunt in China (1947)
  Victor Gaunt - Master Spy (1949)
 
Other Ace Carew—Airman Speed King (Carew) (1949)
  Appointment With Death (1949)
  Beau Rapier, the Desert Dick Turpin (1948)
  Black Hand (1950)
  The Boxing Cyclones (1949)
  The Century-Hitter From Nowhere (1950)
  The Convict Speed Devil (1953)
  Fighting Rebels of the Desert (1948)
  The Football Commandos (1946)
  The Football Speedsters (1950)
  The Haunted Ice-Rink, An Ice-hockey Mystery Thriller (1946)
  Hooded Terror of the Speedway (1948)
  The Hooded Terror Tong (1950)
  The Human Bat v The Robot Gangster (1950)
  The Human Bat (1950)
  The Jungle Speedsters (1949)
  King of the Cycling Sabres (1950)
  Lightning the One-Ton Wonder (1950)
  The Lone Mountie (1940)
  The Lumber Camp Killers (1953)
  The Masked Record-Breaker (1950)
  Mystery Goal-Getter of the Rovers (1949)
  The Outlaw Mountie and Red Fang, the Wonder Husky (1947)
  The Phantom Ice Demon (1949)
  A Prince of the Willow (1950)
  The Railway Rovers (1948)
  The Redskin Ice-Ace of the "Outlaws" (1950.)
  The Roving Rovers (1952)
  The Secret Centre-Half (1950)
  The Speed Ace Gang-Buster (1949)
  The Speed-Ace Frogman (1950)
  Thugs of the High Seas (1954)
  Trailed By Snakeman (1950)
  The Yellow Peril Island (1954)