Eric Poole
Military Person
1885 – 1916
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Who was Eric Poole?
Eric Skeffington Poole, was a Second Lieutenant in the 11th Battalion of the West Yorkshires during the First World War. He was one of only three British officers executed during the war.
After a stay in hospital, suffering from shell shock, he was subsequently convicted of desertion and shot at Poperinghe on 10 December 1916. He is buried in the Poperinghe New Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
Poole arrived in England in 1905.
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- Born
- Jan 20, 1885
Nova Scotia - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Lived in
- Nova Scotia
- Died
- Dec 10, 1916
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on July 23, 2013
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