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Michael John St Brelade Seale was born in Berkshire on 13 August 1920, the only son of Flight Lieutenant Cedric Seale RAFVR and Dorothy (née Seanor). He was educated at Trent College, and entered Worcester College on 13 October 1939 as a scholar. He left the following year, without taking a degree, to join the army.
Michael Seale attended an Officer Cadet Training Unit before being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) on 29 March 1941. He later transferred for service with the Indian Army. In late May 1944, the 4th Battalion 12th Frontier Force were involved in fighting along the Silchar Track near the village of Nungshai in Burma [now Myanmar] where they had been involved in a number of skirmishes with the Japanese. On 20 May 1944 Lieutenant Michael Seale was killed in a failed attack on an enemy position near the village. He was 23 years old.
Michael Seale is commemorated on the Rangoon Memorial, and on the war memorials at Bexley in Kent and at Worcester College, Oxford.