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| Captain David POOLE | |
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2nd West India Regiment Date of birth: 9th September 1871 Date of death: 31st December 1897 Died aged 26 Buried at the Old Naval Cemetery, Kingston |
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| David Poole was born at Clifton, Bristol on the 9th of September 1871 the son of Charles Eldon Poole, a coal merchant, and Margaret Jones (nee Trotter) Poole of Eldon Villa, Apsley Road, Clifton and of "South Barrow", Bickley in Kent. He was educated at Lancing College where he was in Heads House from January 1885 to December 1888. He went on to the Royal Military College Sandhurst from where he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the West India Regiment on the 10th of August 1892. He was promoted to Lieutenant on the 16th of May 1894 and later to Captain. He served in Ashanti Expedition from the 7th of December 1895 to the 17th of January 1896 and was awarded the Ashanti Campaign Medal. He died of yellow fever at St Andrew, Jamaica |
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