Born at Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire on 30 June 1913 and educated at Sherborne School. Commissioned from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich into the Royal Regiment of Artillery on 2 February 1933. After completing his training at the School of Instruction for Royal Horse and Field Artillery, Larkhill in 1933, he joined 13^th Light Battery (renamed 113^th Field Battery in 1935). He joined 2^nd (Derajat) Mountain Battery in India in late-1936. Lieutenant Michael Earle, Royal Regiment of Artillery, 2nd (Derajat) Mountain Battery (Frontier Force) was killed in action on 9 April 1937 at Shahur Tangi. He is commemorated at Sherborne School in the Book of Remembrance and on No. 43 Memorial Pew in the School Chapel. Obituary: The Shirburnian, June 1937.