Second Lieutenant Eric Skeffington Poole
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PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name:
Poole,
Eric Skeffington
Place of birth: Nova Scotia Canada
Marital status: single
Date of death:
1916-12-10
Cause of death:
Died in war, unknown cause
Buried:
Poperinghe New Military Cemetery, II. A. 11.
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: NA
Highest Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Rank detail
Second Lieutenant (British Army).
Survived war: no
Battle wounded/killed: NA
RESEARCH INFORMATION
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CWGC ID: 139482
Uploader's Notes:
Executed on 10th December 1916 for desertion. By modern standards, 2nd Lieutenant Poole may well have been suffering from shell shock but, sadly but importantly, by the standards of the time he knew that desertion was a grave offence hence the death sentence given by Field General Court Martial was upheld and put into effect.
Read chapter 26 (pages 325 to 336) of Blindfold and Alone: British Military Executions in the Great War" by Cathryn Corns and John Hughes-Wilson, published by Cassell & Co (2001) for more information on 2nd Lieutenant Poole.
Uploader's Research notes: Read chapter 26 (pages 325 to 336) of Blindfold and Alone: British Military Executions in the Great War" by Cathryn Corns and John Hughes-Wilson, published by Cassell & Co (2001) for more information on 2nd Lieutenant Poole. [Second Lieutenant British Army British Infantry 11th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment ]
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Date added: 2005-05-03
Last modified: 2020-04-06