Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookattle of Neuve Chapelle, on the 12th, while leading his platoon in a charge against the German trenches; _unm._ Buried there. His Col. wrote: "He was my most promising officer, and would have, had he lived, I am certain, distinguished himself." He was a well-known footballer, forward member of the London Devonians, Lennox, Richmond, Trojair and Stund Clubs; a good rider to hounds, and polo player, a successful cricketer and shot, and a pig sticker while in Morocco. [Illustration: =E. M. Mansel-Pleydell.=] =PLUMMER, ARCHIBALD ALFRED=, Private, No. 8652, 2nd Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., _s._ of William Plummer, Labourer; _b._ Bungay, co. Suffolk, 9th May, 1892; enlisted in the 3rd Battn. Norfolk Regt. 28 Jan. 1909, was transferred to the Lincolns and was killed in action with the Expeditionary Force in France, 10 March, 1915; _unm._ =PLUMMER, ARTHUR HENRY=, 2nd Lieut. 5th Battn. The King's Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), 3rd. _s._ of the Rev. Francis Bowes Plummer, Rector of Halewood and Hon. Canon of Liverpool, by his wife, Edith Mary, dau. of Rev. Canon Barker, Rector of Hexham; _b._ Walton-on-the-Hill, 5 Nov. 1891; educ. Trent College, Derbyshire, (Jan. 1901 to July, 1910, holding a scholarship for the last five years), and Trinity College, Oxford (Oct. 1910 to June, 1914), where he studied medicine and gained the first place in the 2nd Class Honours List of the Final School of Physiology. After the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he tried to secure some position in the Army where he could make use of his medical knowledge. Failing to realize his hopes, he applied for a commission in the 5th Battn. Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 19 Oct. After four months at Blackpool, with the reserve unit, he was, in Feb. 1915, transferred to the Service Battn. at Canterbury, and shortly afterwards (21 Feb.) left England to join the First Army in France. For four months he was engaged in hard fighting in the trenches near Bethune and, to use his own words, "was often as nearly blown to pieces as possible." He was killed in the late afternoon, 17 May, 1915, in action near Festubert. Writing to his father, the Commanding Officer said: "He was killed whilst occupying with his platoon our foremost trench, doing his duty gallantly and fearlessly. In addition to his military command, he was throughout the long battle indefatigable in his attention to the wounded, and his medical skill brought timely relief to many a stricken comrade. His fine manly character and kindly disposition had already endeared him to all of us." Capt. H. K. S. Woodhouse, commanding C Coy., wrote: "After a very hard morning, my company was told to go in support of another regt. and your son accompanied me with his platoon. I left him to go to some other duties, and did not see him again alive.... He was shot in the neck while he was directing some men to their places, and the bullet must have touched his spine, for he fell and was unconscious for an hour before he died.... He was buried in the rear of the English fire trench, alongside his platoon sergeant, who was killed earlier in the day." While at Trent he was a member of the O.T.C. (1906-1910), Senior Prefect, Gold Medallist and Captain of Cricket and Football (1909-1910). [Illustration: =Arthur Henry Plummer.=] =PLUNKETT, GERALD=, B.A., Barrister-at-Law, Sub-Lieut., A Coy., Collingwood Battn. Royal Naval Division, yst. _s._ of Patrick Joseph Plunkett, of 14, Palmerston Road, Dublin, and grandson of the late Walter Plunkett, of Bryne House, co. Meath; _b._ Dublin, 11 Aug. 1887; educ. Belvedere College (S.J.), Dublin (where he took honours each year in Intermediate Examinations), and New College, Oxford (B.A.); was called to the Irish Bar, 1910, and was a member of the North-West Circuit; joined the Trinity College O.T.C. on the outbreak of war, and was given a commission, 20 Oct. 1914; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 4 June, 1915. He was Platoon Commander and gallantly led his men in the attack on the Turkish position that day, cheering them on to the last. He was emptying his revolver into the Turks when he was shot in the head, and killed instantly; _unm._ [Illustration: =Gerald Plunkett.=] =POCOCK, FRANK WILLIAM=, Sergt., No. 1851, 13th Battn. (Princess Louise's Kensington) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Frank Pocock, of 14, Tadema Road, Chelsea, by his wife, Rose Hannah, dau. of John Vickers; _b._ Chelsea, 11 Sept. 1891; educ. Harwood Road Council School, Fulham, was a Timber Merchant's Salesman; joined the Kensingtons 24 Feb. 1909; completed his term of service 23 Feb. 1914, but on the outbreak of war in Aug. following rejoined his regt. on the 6th; volunteered for foreign service; went to France on 3 Nov., was wounded in the ear at Neuve Chapelle on 16 March, and was killed in action at Festubert, 9 May, 1915, while leading his platoon from one German trench to another; _unm._ Buried there. Lieut. Penn wrote that he "faced the enemy unflinchingly and died a noble soldier's death." =POCOCK, WILLIAM JONATHAN=, Stoker. 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4447), S.S. 103463, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =PODD, JOHN EDMUND=, Sergt., No. 106, 4th Battn. Suffolk Regt. (T.F.), 2nd _s._ of Henry Podd, of 23, Wykes Bishop Street, Ipswich, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of Daniel Button; _b._ Ipswich, 13 Oct. 1885; educ. Cavendish Street School, St. Clement's, Ipswich; was a Machinist at Stoke Foundry, Ipswich; joined the Suffolk Territorials, 2 Sept. 1902; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France, 8 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915. He _m._ at Butley Church, co. Suffolk, 12 May, 1913, Kate Edith Elizabeth (15, Cobbold Street, Ipswich), dau. of David Mayhew, of Butley, and had a son: John Edmund, _b._ posthumous 10 June, 1915. [Illustration: =John Edmund Podd.=] =POINTER, WILLIAM=, A.B., 220380, H.M.S Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =POLING, CHARLES WILLIAM=, Bombardier, R.M.A. (R.F.R., I.C. 32), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =POLLARD, CLIFFORD=, Boy, 1st Class. J. 23543 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; _s._ of William Pollard, of 15, Greenfield Road, Holmfirth, near Huddersfield; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =POLLARD, EDWARD BRANCH=, Lieut., 8th (Service) Battn. King's Own Scottish Borderers, attd. 176th Coy. Royal Engineers, yst. _s._ of George Richard Macintosh Pollard, of Burns Cottage, Moffat, co. Dumfries, M.D., by his wife, Grace, dau. of the Rev. J. Macfarlane. LL.D.; _b._ Clapham, co. Surrey, 1 March, 1883; educ. Royal School of Mines, and on finishing his mining and metallurgical course went to the Mundydroog mines, Mysore, in Oct. 1907, where he was in the Mounted Rifles Coy. of the Kola Gold Fields Volunteers. When war was declared in Aug. 1914, |