Captain Ralph Dominic Gamble MC was born in Simla, India in 1897. The second child and the only son of Sir Reginald Arthur Gamble. His grandfather had been Dominic Jacotin Gamble, a veteran of the Crimean War and campaigns in New Zealand. Eventually, he had become the Director of Military Education prior to his death in 1887. His sister married Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson. Eventually, in 1919, Gamble was instead awarded the Military Cross for leading his company into heavy fog and taking a position without the tanks allocated to support him during the action that cost him his life.