Battn. South Wales Borderers, 2nd and only surviving _s._ of the
late Robert Erskine Pollock of Avening Court, Avening, co. Gloucester,
and 74, Queen’s Gate, K.C. (see preceding notice); _b._ 74 Queen’s
Gate, S.W., 15 May, 1888; educ. Eton College and Trinity College,
Cambridge; was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in Nov. 1910,
and went to the Oxford Circuit. He was given his commission in the
3rd (Reserve) Battn. of the South Wales Borderers, 15 Aug. 1914, and
afterwards transferred to the 2nd Battn. He left with his regt. for the
front in March, 1915, and was killed in action while leading his men in
an attack near Richebourg St. Vaast, France, 9 May, 1915; _unm._
[Illustration: =Martin Viner Pollock.=]
=POLLOCK, WALTER=, Private, No. 2160, 3rd Battn. Australian
Imperial Force, _s._ of James Pollock, of Port Glasgow; served in
Egypt and in the Dardanelles; killed in action, 20 May, 1915.
=POLSON, GEOFFREY WILLIAM=, Lieut., 1st Battn The Black Watch,
only _s._ of the late Daniel Maclean Polson, of Paisley, by his
wife, Ethelle Beatrice (Invervar, North Berwick), dau. of the late
Lieut.-Col. Joel Blades, R.A.; _b._ Paisley, 16 Sept. 1890; educ.
St. Ninians, Moffat; Charterhouse, and New College, Oxford; gazetted
2nd Lieut., The Black Watch, 19 Aug. 1913, to rank as from 21 Sept.
1911, and promoted Lieut. 2 June, 1914; went to France, 13 Aug. 1914,
and was killed in action during the Battle of the Aisne, 15 Sept.
following, while temporarily in command of his company; _unm._
Buried in the Cemetery at Moulins, Canton of Craonne, France. Dr. W.
A. Spooner, Warden of New College, Oxford, wrote: “Geoffrey Polson was
one of the best, if not the best, undergraduate I can remember at his
college. Understanding that he came to Oxford to learn, he stuck always
manfully to his work, and succeeded in taking a fore place in the
Honour History School, for which he finally entered. But study formed
but a small part of his College activities; in games, particularly in
all games bearing on military life, he was an expert and a natural
leader; in social life he had the art of attracting and winning friends
and was deservedly one of the most popular and most influential men
in College. When he left us we all expected him to make a first-rate
officer; and our expectations were filled during the short period of
his military career. His friends and the whole College heard with
profound regret of his death, but they felt that he had died as he had
lived, and that his death was the worthy crown of his life.” While at
Charterhouse he won two scholarships, and during his last year, when he
was head of the school, was presented with a copy of “Forty Years of My
life in India,” by the late Lord Roberts, for being the best all-round
boy at school, and at sport. At New College, he took 2nd class honours
in History; was a keen golfer and played for his College.
[Illustration: =Geoffrey William Polson.=]
=POND, BERTIE=, Private, No. 7112. 1st. Battn. Lincolnshire Regt.,
2nd _s._ of Henry Pond, of 212, King Street, Norwich, by his wife,
Rose Hannah, dau. of John Richardson (and Mary Ann) Fox; _b._
Norwich, co. Norfolk, 20 Nov. 1888; educ. Carrow School, Norwich;
enlisted in the Army, 25 July, 1904; went to France in Aug. 1914, and
died of wounds received in action at Ypres, 25 Oct. 1914. Buried in
Bethune Cemetery. He _m._ at Norwich, 1909, Alice Jane (36, Eagle
Walk, Newmarket Road, Norwich), dau. of the late Josiah William (and
Anna Maria) Larkman, and had three children: Donald Bertie; _b._
15 Sept. 1909: Norman Henry, _b._ 23 Oct. 1910; and Phyllis Alice,
_b._ 31 Dec. 1914.
=PONSFORD=, _alias_ =JONES, THOMAS EDWARD=, Private,
No. 57662, 20th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, only _s._
of Thomas Edward Ponsford (died 24 March, 1907), by his wife, Alice
(8, Prospect Place, Barnsbury, Islington, N.), dau. of (--) Jones;
_b._ Clerkenwell, E.C., 24 June, 1890; educ. Wilmington Street
School there; went to Canada in April, 1910, and settled at Toronto,
and was engaged on farm work; volunteered for Imperial service on the
outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, and joined the 20th Battn.
Canadian Expeditionary Force; came over in June, 1915, and died in
hospital at Shorncliffe, 8 Sept. 1915, while training; _unm._
[Illustration: =Thomas E. Ponsford.=]
=PONTEFRACT, ROBERT=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 17262, H.M.S.
Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=POOK, RICHARD THOMAS=, Driver, No. 2268, 1/3rd Coy. Kent Fortress
R.E., eldest _s._ of James Pook, of Noman’s Wood, Wadhurst,
Carter, by his wife, Ruth, dau. of Richard Muggridge; _b._
Beanford Farm, Battle, co. Sussex, 15 April, 1883; educ. Battle
School; was a Coal Carman at Tunbridge Wells; enlisted 31 May, 1915;
left England for the Dardanelles, 12 Oct. 1915, and was drowned in
the collision of H.M.S. Hythe, 29 Oct. 1915, when she was wrecked in
the Ægean Sea, off Cape Wells. He _m._ at the Wesleyan Methodist
Chapel, Wadhurst, Sussex, 14 Dec. 1907, Florence Edith (4, Hill Street,
Tunbridge Wells), dau. of George Benge Gardener, and had two children:
Francis Norah, _b._ 16 Sept, 1908; and Edith Margaret Elsie,
_b._ 20 Nov. 1912.
[Illustration: =Richard Thomas Pook.=]
=POOLE, EDWARD BRUCE=, Private, No. 2262, 5th (Cinque Ports)
Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., _s._ of Frederick Poole, of 9, Hill
Street, Hastings; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.;
killed in action, 9 May, 1915.
=POOLE, FREDERICK=, Private, No. 2518, 2nd Home Counties
Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps (T.F.); served with the
Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 13 May, 1915;
_m._
=POOLE, HUGH EDWARD ALGERNON=, 2nd Lieut., 11th (Prince Albert’s
Own) Hussars, 2nd _s._ of Major Arthur Edward Poole, a Military
Knight of Windsor, late 10th Hussars, by his wife, Mary, dau. of James
Dunbar Smith; _b._ at the Cavalry Barracks, York, 7 Jan. 1889;
educ. Christ’s Hospital, Horsham; enlisted in the 14th Hussars in 1906
and served in India. Being home on leave when war broke out in Aug.
1914, he was attached to the 20th Hussars, going to the front with them
as a corpl.; mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of
8 Oct. [London Gazette, 19 Oct.] 1914, he was promoted for gallantry
in the field and gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 11th Hussars, as from 1
Oct. 1914; served in the trenches through the winter of 1914–15, and
was wounded for the third time at Zillebeke, by a shell while guiding
his squadron from the trenches in the early dawn of the 24 May; he was
taken to Boulogne and died there of tetanus, 2 June, 1915, _unm._
He was buried at Windsor with full Military honours. On 1 Sept, at a
place called Mary at the junction of the Marne and the Ourcq, he and
two other men of the 20th Hussars returned three times under fire to
try and save a mortally wounded comrade. The 20th Hussars were acting
as rearguard at the time and were attacked at 2 p.m. His Commanding
Officer wrote: “He had done excellent work ever since he had been with
the regt. and was very popular with officers and men; he is a great
loss to us.”
[Illustration: =Hugh E. A. Poole.=]
=POOLE, WALTER=, Private, No. G. 3554, 1st Battn. East Surrey
Regt., _s._ of Freeman Poole, of Witcham, near Ely; served with
the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 5 May, 1915.
=POOLE, THOMAS LUKE=, Private, No. 8947, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, _s._
of J. C. Poole, of 35, West Street, Berwick-on-Tweed; _b._ Berwick:
enlisted 29 April, 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France;
killed in action, 20–26 Oct. 1914.
=POOR, ALBERT HENRY=, Sergt., No. 9099, 3rd Battn. Coldstream
Guards, _s._ of Walter Poor, of 14, Union Terrace, St. Sidwell’s,
Exeter, Gardener; _b._ Exeter, 27 Sept. 1893; educ. there;
enlisted 1 May, 1911; went to France with the Expeditionary Force; was
promoted Sergt. at the Front, 23 Nov. 1914; served through the retreat
from Mons, the Battles of the Aisne, the Marne, Landrecies, La Bassée,
St. Julien, Festubert, etc.; was home on leave in July, returning to
the Front on the 28th, and died near Vermelles, at 2 a.m., 27 Sept.
1915, of wounds inflicted by a stray bullet. He was buried in Vermelles
Cemetery. 2nd Lieut. E. Platt wrote: “I had an intense admiration for
the smart way he performed all his military duties. This view I may say
was shared by Capt. Darell who was commanding his Coy. in the early
stages, and afterwards by Capt. Longueville.”
[Illustration: =Albert Henry Poor.=]
=POPE, CYRIL MONTAGU=, B.A., B.C.L., Lieut., 2nd Battn.
Worcestershire Regt., eldest _s._ of the late Reginald Barrett
Pope, of 41, Sussex Square, Brighton, LL.B., Solicitor, by his wife,
Mary Richardson (4, The Cliff, Blackrock, Brighton), dau. of Alexander
Reid; _b._ Brighton, Sussex, 6 Aug. 1888; educ. Brighton;
Temple Grove, East Sheen (now Eastbourne), and won a scholarship for
Winchester College, where he won an Exhibition for Brasenose College,
Oxford (1907), taking there a second class in “Mods,” and “Greats,”
second class in Jurisprudence, the Senior Hulme Exhibition in 1912,
and finally, in 1913, his B.C.L.; and was in the second year of his
articles with Messrs. Stuckey, Pope & Carr. In 1910 he obtained a
commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 5th Battn. Oxford and Bucks L.I. In
March, 1914, was gazetted Lieut. to the 5th (Special Reserve) Worcester
Regt. He went to France, 13 Aug 1914, attd. to the 2nd Battn.; served
through the retreat from Mons, and was seriously wounded in a charge
through the Polyon Wood, near Ypres, 24 Oct. 1914, dying on his way to
the 22nd Field Hospital. He was buried in the cemetery on the Hollebeke
Road, just past the junction of the Menin Road; _unm._ Major
Sweetman, of the 2nd Battn. Worcestershire Regt., wrote: “I saw him
just after I was hit leading on his men most gallantly against a strong
position of the enemy.” At Brasenose he stroked the first Torpid in
1912 and was a member of the Association football team.
[Illustration: =Cyril Montagu Pope.=]
=POPE, ERNEST RICHARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9964), S.S. 2589,
H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=POPE, FREDERICK WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111165, H.M.S.
Hawke, _s._ of Henry Richard Pope, of 2, Hampton Road, Hanworth;
lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=POPE, HENRY JAMES=, Private, No. 2292, 5th (Cinque Ports) Battn.
Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Henry Pope, of High
Street, Burwash, Platelayer on the S.E. & C.R., by his wife, Emma
Annie, dau. of the late John Isted, of Burwash; _b._ Burwash, co.
Sussex, 28 July, 1883; educ. National School there; was a Gardener;
joined the 1st Cinque Ports Rifle Volunteers in 1899 for three years
and in 1912 became a member of the National Reserve. On the outbreak
of war in Aug. 1914, he rejoined his old corps, went to France, 18
Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Richebourg, 9 May following.
He _m._ at Burwash Parish Church, 7 July, 1910, Alice Elizabeth
(Sketrick, Etchingham, Sussex), dau. of Jabez Munday, of Faringdon,
Berkshire, and had a dau., Alice, _b._ 28 Oct. 1912.
[Illustration: =Henry James Pope.=]
=POPE, HERBERT=, Private, No. 631, 10th Battn. Australian Light
Horse (Western Australia), _s._ of William Pope, of Henrietta
Street, Waterford, Merchant, by his wife, Elizabeth (Brook House, Moss
Lane, Pinner), dau. of Richard Harieey, of Killoteran House, Waterford;
_b._ Tower Hill, Ferry Bank, co. Waterford, 11 April, 1893; educ.
privately and at Waterford. About four years before his death he went
to Western Australia and acquired a farm there. On the outbreak of war
he enlisted, and was killed in action in the charge of the Australians
at Suvla Bay, 7 Aug. 1915; _unm._
=POPE, REGINALD THOMAS BUCKINGHAM=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Welch
Regt., 2nd _s._ of the late Reginald Barrette Pope, of 41, Sussex
Square, Brighton, LL.B., Solicitor, by his wife, Mary Richardson (4,
The Cliff, Blackrock, Brighton), dau. of Alexander Reid; _b._ Eton
Place, Brighton, 29 July, 1891; educ. Junior House, Brighton College;
Rottingdean School, near Brighton; Bradfield College, where he won an
exhibition, and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut.
Welch Regt. 20 Sept. 1911, and joined at Cairo in Nov., was promoted
Lieut. 16 July following; proceeded to France with his regt. in Jan.
1915, and was killed in action, 16 Feb. 1915. His Major wrote: “We had
a most terrible time.... Your brother thought he had seen a sniper
and got up with a rifle to try and shoot him, when almost immediately
he was hit right through the forehead. He died at once without any
suffering at all. When night fell I managed to get his body back and
had him sent out of the trenches. He is buried at Chateau Rosenthal,
Ypres, between Capt. Lloyd and another officer.” Lieut. Pope was a very
keen sportsman, played football and cricket for his school, and went
big game shooting in the Soudan in Jan. 1914. His elder brother, Cyril
Montagu Pope, Worcester Regt., was fatally wounded near Ypres, in Oct.
1914 (see his notice).
[Illustration: =Reginald T. B. Pope.=]
=POPE, WALTER GEORGE HENRY=, M.A.A., 165439, H.M.S. Good Hope;
lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=PORT, HARRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3905), 191709, H.M.S. Hawke; lost
when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._
=PORTEOUS, DICK MACDONALD, D.S.O.=, Capt. 1st Battn. Princess
Louise’s Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, only _s._ of Col.
John James Porteous, of 7, Sloane Street, S.W., late R.A.; _b._
Dublin, 15 June, 1883; educ. Wellington College and Sandhurst; gazetted
2nd Lieut. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (the old 91st), 22 Oct.
1902, Lieut. 19 Oct. 1907, and Capt. 13 Sept. 1913; served with the
Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, greatly distinguishing
himself; was awarded the D.S.O. for conspicuous gallantry on many
occasions throughout the campaign [London Gazette, 15 April, 1915], the
official record stating that “His very great daring and total disregard
of danger on reconnaissance duty, especially at St. Eloi on 19 Feb.
1915, were noticeable,” and was mentioned again in F.M. Sir John (now
Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915], for
distinguished service in the field. He was killed in action, being shot
through the head in the trenches near Ypres, 10 May, 1915; _unm._
=PORTER, FREDERICK CHARLES=, Rifleman, No. 1551, 1/18th Battn.
(London Irish Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.); _s._ of the late
Edward Porter, Plasterer, by his wife, Alice (now wife of Benjamin
William Hatine, of 1, Ferndale Road, Forest Gate, E.), dau. of Edward
Jackson; _b._ Childs Hill, London, N., 28 July, 1896; educ. Manse
Road School, West Ham; was a Clerk in an Assurance Office, 110 Cannon
Street; joined the London Irish Rifles in July, 1913; volunteered for
foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France,
March, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 29 Aug. following.
Buried in Hazebrouck Cemetery.
=PORTER, GEORGE HENRY=, Petty Officer 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B.
2455), 169078, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept.
1914.
=PORTER, HARRY=, Private, No. 3617, 3rd Battn. Coldstream
Guards; _b._ Codford St. Mary, co. Wilts; educ. there; enlisted
in the Coldstreams, 14 June, 1900; was called up from the Reserve on
mobilisation in Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in
France and Flanders, and was killed in action at St. Julien, 24 Oct.
1914. He _m._ at Wellow, co. Somerset, Elizabeth Ann (The Batch,
Wellow, Somerset), dau. of (--), and had three children: William
George, Frederick Robert, and Florence Gertrude.
[Illustration: =Harry Porter.=]
=PORTWAINE, HARRY=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 16678, H.M.S. Hawke;
lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=POSTLETHWAITE, JOHN JOYCE=, Trooper, No. 336, 11th, attd.
5th, Light Horse, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd _s._ of Frank
Postlethwaite, of Brentnor, Tavistock, co. Devon, M.R.C.S., by his
wife, Emma Elizabeth, dau. of the Rev. H. M. Joyce, Vicar of Penton;
_b._ Stapleton, co. Cumberland, 11 June, 1893; educ. King’s
College, Taunton, and Tavistock Grammar School; went to Australia in
March, 1911, and settled at Burrowa, New South Wales, and later at
Winton, Queensland, as a Station Hand; joined the Australian Light
Horse at Brisbane in Jan. 1915; left for Egypt in March; went to
the Dardanelles, Aug. 1915, and was killed in action there, 2 Nov.
following, while serving his machine gun; _unm._ Buried in Shell
Green Cemetery, Anzac, Gallipoli. His company officer wrote: “Your
son had recently been transferred from my squadron to the machine-gun
section of this regt. (5th Light Horse), a position which he quickly
learnt. At all times he proved himself to be a good soldier, as able
and willing to perform the many fatigue duties as he was resourceful
in the firing line”; and a comrade: “There were a good many of the men
rolled up to see him buried: fellows from his own regt. and also from
the one to which he was posted. From the Major downwards, your son was
tremendously popular, and the men are very cut up at his loss. A cross,
bearing his name, regt., age, and date of death, was erected by his
regimental comrades.”
[Illustration: =John Joyce Postlethwaite.=]
=POTTER, BERT=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2622), 284614,
H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=POTTER, FRANK WILLIAM=, Private, No. 9478, 3rd Battn. Canadian
Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Henry Potter, of 198, Bedford Hill,
S.W., member of the firm of Henry Potter & Co., West Street, Charing
Cross, Army Musical Instrument Makers, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of
George Lash; and a great grandson of the late Samuel Potter, of the
Coldstream Guards, who compiled and published in 1815 the authorised
Bugle, Drum and Fife Calls, including the Last Post, a revised edition
of which is now in use in the Army and Navy; _b._ Sidcup, Kent,
19 Aug. 1887; educ. Cheltonia College, Streatham, S.W. (where he won
the prize for “High Character”); went to Canada about 1903 and was
in Dakota when war was declared; went to Toronto and volunteered
for Imperial service Aug. 1914; came over with the first Canadian
contingent in Oct.; went to France early in Feb., served through the
Second Battle of Ypres, and the various engagements during the early
part of 1915, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 16 June, 1915;
_unm._ Buried near Givenchy, behind trench No. 19, 500 yards east
of the “Ducks Bill.”
[Illustration: =Frank William Potter.=]
=POTTER, MAURICE HENRY=, L.-Corpl., No. 11182, 1st Battn. Sherwood
Foresters, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regt., 4th _s._ of
Elijah William Potter, of Six-Mile Bottom, Newmarket, co. Cambridge,
Goods Porter on the Great Eastern Railway at Six-Mile Bottom Station,
by his wife, Jane, dau. of James Cook; _b._ Six-Mile Bottom,
1 May, 1891; educ. Council School there; enlisted in the Sherwood
Foresters, 2 March, 1909; served in India, Sept. 1911 to Oct. 1914,
and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, Nov. 1914
to 1 Feb. 1915, on which latter date he was killed in action near La
Bassée, and was buried 30 yards west of the Estaires-La Bassée Road;
_unm._ He gained the 2nd Class Certificate of Education 19 Dec.
1909, and a 1st Class Certificate of the same, 27 March, 1913; he
also gained four good conduct badges, and the swimming certificate at
Bombay, 17 Jan. 1914. His three brothers are all now (1916) on active
service.
[Illustration: =Maurice Henry Potter.=]
=POTTER, VICTOR JAMES=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 25352 (Ports.), H.M.S.
Hawke, _s._ of William Henry Potter, of 23, George Street, Sutton,
co. Surrey; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct.
1914.
=POTTER, WILLIAM FREDERICK=, Bugler, No. 1255, 1/21st Battn. (1st
Surrey Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of Reuben Potter,
of 33, D’Eynsford Road, Camberwell, London, S.E., Pensioner, by his
wife, Jane, dau. of the late John Faux, of Leatherhead; _b._
King’s Cross, London, N., 1 Aug. 1895; educ. Grove Lane Board School,
Camberwell; was employed by Warner & Sons, 3 and 4, Newgate Street;
joined the 1st Surrey Rifles, 20 Dec. 1911; volunteered for foreign
service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 16
March, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 25 May following;
_unm._ Buried there.
=POTTER, WILLIAM JOHN=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8288),
207367, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=POTTERTON, LEWIS JOHN=, A.B., S.S. 618, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in
action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=POTTS, GEORGE=, L.-Corpl., No. 15741, 15th (Service) Battn.
Durham L.I., eldest _s._ of Thomas Farrar Potts, of 17, Grosvenor
Street, Southwick-on-Wear, Shipyard Labourer, by his wife, Mary Ellen
(died 1910), dau. of Joseph Rooney, of Southwick; _b._ Southwick,
14 March. 1895; educ. Board School there; was employed at Hylton
Colliery; enlisted 7 Sept. 1914, trained at Halton, Yorks; was promoted
L.-Corpl. and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 26 Sept.
1915; _unm._ He was buried in Loos Cemetery.
[Illustration: =George Potts.=]
=POUGHER, WILLIAM ANDREW=, Corpl., No. 8395, 2nd Battn.
Leicestershire Regt., eldest _s._ of Samuel Thomas Pougher, and
nephew of A. D. Pougher, the famous Leicestershire cricketer; _b._
Leicester, 1889; educ. Holy Trinity Schools there; enlisted in the 2nd
Leicestershires, March, 1908, and served in India for six years, being
drafted direct to France on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and was
killed in action, 27 July, 1915; _unm._ Sergt. W. Andrews wrote
that “Corpl. Pougher was his best scout, and right-hand man.”
=POUGHER, WILLIAM HENRY=, 2nd Yeoman of Signals (R.F.R., B. 647),
164970, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=POULTNEY, HARRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3125), S.S.
100753, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of
Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=POULTON, JAMES=, Private, No. 6493, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards,
_s._ of Joseph Poulton, of Ladywood, Birmingham, by his wife,
Annie; _b._ Birmingham, 10 July, 1888; enlisted 9 Dec. 1905;
served three years with the Colours, and then joined the Reserve for
nine years; called up on mobilisation, 5 Aug. 1914, and was reported
missing after the fighting at Soissons, 14 Sept. 1914, and is now
assumed to have been killed in action that day. He _m._ at All
Saints’ Church, Birmingham, 8 Oct. 1911, Florence Ann (200, Bolton
Road, South Heath, Birmingham), dau. of Thomas Chater, and had two
children: Thomas James, _b._ 8 May, 1914; and Irene May, _b._
9 Oct. 1912.
[Illustration: =James Poulton.=]
=POULTON, WILLIAM MITCHELL=, A.B., 213679, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost
when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5
Sept. 1914.
=POVEY, GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3752), 186391, H.M.S.
Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=POWELL, ARTHUR CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1720), 124746,
H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=POWELL, ARTHUR THOMAS=, Gunner, R.M.A., 10190 (R.F.R., I.C. 40),
H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1
Nov. 1914.
=POWELL, CHARLES VICTOR=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111772, H.M.S.
Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=POWELL, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 113461, H.M.S. Hogue;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.