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| Captain David Charles POOLE | |
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2nd West India Regiment Date of birth: 12th October 1870 Date of death: 31st December 1897 Died aged 27 Buried at the Old Naval Cemetery, Kingston, Jamaica |
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| David Charles Poole was born at Clifton, Bristol on the 12th of October 1870 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 christened at Clifton on the 8th of November 1870. 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 to Captain in 1897. 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 from yellow fever at St Andrew, Jamaica |
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