Major Norman Arthur Raymond POTTER (21721)
R Battery, 15th Field Regiment Royal Artillery

Date of birth: 2nd February 1898
Date of death: 30th October 1939

Died aged 41
Buried at Brookwood Military Cemetery Plot 114 Row D Grave 21
He was born at Mandalay, Burma on the 2nd of February 1898, the son oof Arthur Edward Potter, Inspector of Schools for Burma, and Eleanor (nee Neale) of Northern Circle, Monywa, Burma. He was christened at Mandalay on the 8th of March 1898.

He was educated at the Junior King's School from May 1910 and at the King's School Canterbury from January 1912 to December 1914, where he was a member of the Cricket XI and the Rugby XV in 1914.

In December 1914 he entered the Royal Military Academy Woolwich from where he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery on the 28th of July 1915. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1917 and saw service in France from the 4th of May 1916 to December 1916 and from April 1917 to August 1917, being wounded in June 1917.

On his return from the war he served at Woolwich before being employed in the West African Frontier Force from 1923 to 1927. He returned to the UK on the SS “Demerara” on the 24th of March 1927 landing at Liverpool.

He was promoted to Captain on the 25th of March 1929 and to Major on the 1st of April 1938. At the outbreak of war in September 1939 he was Commanding Officer of R Battery, 15 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery based at Lahore in India.

He died at Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton.

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