Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookife, he was an expert and a natural leader; in social life he had the art of attracting and winning friends and was deservedly one of the most popular and most influential men in College. When he left us we all expected him to make a first-rate officer; and our expectations were filled during the short period of his military career. His friends and the whole College heard with profound regret of his death, but they felt that he had died as he had lived, and that his death was the worthy crown of his life." While at Charterhouse he won two scholarships, and during his last year, when he was head of the school, was presented with a copy of "Forty Years of My life in India," by the late Lord Roberts, for being the best all-round boy at school, and at sport. At New College, he took 2nd class honours in History; was a keen golfer and played for his College. [Illustration: =Geoffrey William Polson.=] =POND, BERTIE=, Private, No. 7112. 1st. Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., 2nd _s._ of Henry Pond, of 212, King Street, Norwich, by his wife, Rose Hannah, dau. of John Richardson (and Mary Ann) Fox; _b._ Norwich, co. Norfolk, 20 Nov. 1888; educ. Carrow School, Norwich; enlisted in the Army, 25 July, 1904; went to France in Aug. 1914, and died of wounds received in action at Ypres, 25 Oct. 1914. Buried in Bethune Cemetery. He _m._ at Norwich, 1909, Alice Jane (36, Eagle Walk, Newmarket Road, Norwich), dau. of the late Josiah William (and Anna Maria) Larkman, and had three children: Donald Bertie; _b._ 15 Sept. 1909: Norman Henry, _b._ 23 Oct. 1910; and Phyllis Alice, _b._ 31 Dec. 1914. =PONSFORD=, _alias_ =JONES, THOMAS EDWARD=, Private, No. 57662, 20th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, only _s._ of Thomas Edward Ponsford (died 24 March, 1907), by his wife, Alice (8, Prospect Place, Barnsbury, Islington, N.), dau. of (--) Jones; _b._ Clerkenwell, E.C., 24 June, 1890; educ. Wilmington Street School there; went to Canada in April, 1910, and settled at Toronto, and was engaged on farm work; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, and joined the 20th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force; came over in June, 1915, and died in hospital at Shorncliffe, 8 Sept. 1915, while training; _unm._ [Illustration: =Thomas E. Ponsford.=] =PONTEFRACT, ROBERT=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 17262, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =POOK, RICHARD THOMAS=, Driver, No. 2268, 1/3rd Coy. Kent Fortress R.E., eldest _s._ of James Pook, of Noman's Wood, Wadhurst, Carter, by his wife, Ruth, dau. of Richard Muggridge; _b._ Beanford Farm, Battle, co. Sussex, 15 April, 1883; educ. Battle School; was a Coal Carman at Tunbridge Wells; enlisted 31 May, 1915; left England for the Dardanelles, 12 Oct. 1915, and was drowned in the collision of H.M.S. Hythe, 29 Oct. 1915, when she was wrecked in the Ægean Sea, off Cape Wells. He _m._ at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Wadhurst, Sussex, 14 Dec. 1907, Florence Edith (4, Hill Street, Tunbridge Wells), dau. of George Benge Gardener, and had two children: Francis Norah, _b._ 16 Sept, 1908; and Edith Margaret Elsie, _b._ 20 Nov. 1912. [Illustration: =Richard Thomas Pook.=] =POOLE, EDWARD BRUCE=, Private, No. 2262, 5th (Cinque Ports) Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., _s._ of Frederick Poole, of 9, Hill Street, Hastings; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 9 May, 1915. =POOLE, FREDERICK=, Private, No. 2518, 2nd Home Counties Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps (T.F.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 13 May, 1915; _m._ =POOLE, HUGH EDWARD ALGERNON=, 2nd Lieut., 11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars, 2nd _s._ of Major Arthur Edward Poole, a Military Knight of Windsor, late 10th Hussars, by his wife, Mary, dau. of James Dunbar Smith; _b._ at the Cavalry Barracks, York, 7 Jan. 1889; educ. Christ's Hospital, Horsham; enlisted in the 14th Hussars in 1906 and served in India. Being home on leave when war broke out in Aug. 1914, he was attached to the 20th Hussars, going to the front with them as a corpl.; mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French's Despatch of 8 Oct. [London Gazette, 19 Oct.] 1914, he was promoted for gallantry in the field and gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 11th Hussars, as from 1 Oct. 1914; served in the trenches through the winter of 1914-15, and was wounded for the third time at Zillebeke, by a shell while guiding his squadron from the trenches in the early dawn of the 24 May; he was taken to Boulogne and died there of tetanus, 2 June, 1915, _unm._ He was buried at Windsor with full Military honours. On 1 Sept, at a place called Mary at the junction of the Marne and the Ourcq, he and two other men of the 20th Hussars returned three times under fire to try and save a mortally wounded comrade. The 20th Hussars were acting as rearguard at the time and were attacked at 2 p.m. His Commanding Officer wrote: "He had done excellent work ever since he had been with the regt. and was very popular with officers and men; he is a great loss to us." [Illustration: =Hugh E. A. Poole.=] =POOLE, WALTER=, Private, No. G. 3554, 1st Battn. East Surrey Regt., _s._ of Freeman Poole, of Witcham, near Ely; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 5 May, 1915. =POOLE, THOMAS LUKE=, Private, No. 8947, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, _s._ of J. C. Poole, of 35, West Street, Berwick-on-Tweed; _b._ Berwick: enlisted 29 April, 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 20-26 Oct. 1914. =POOR, ALBERT HENRY=, Sergt., No. 9099, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of Walter Poor, of 14, Union Terrace, St. Sidwell's, Exeter, Gardener; _b._ Exeter, 27 Sept. 1893; educ. there; enlisted 1 May, 1911; went to France with the Expeditionary Force; was promoted Sergt. at the Front, 23 Nov. 1914; served through the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Aisne, the Marne, Landrecies, La Bassée, St. Julien, Festubert, etc.; was home on leave in July, returning to the Front on the 28th, and died near Vermelles, at 2 a.m., 27 Sept. 1915, of wounds inflicted by a stray bullet. He was buried in Vermelles Cemetery. 2nd Lieut. E. Platt wrote: "I had an intense admiration for the smart way he performed all his military duties. This view I may say was shared by Capt. Darell who was commanding his Coy. in the early stages, and afterwards by Capt. Longueville." [Illustration: =Albert Henry Poor.=] =POPE, CYRIL MONTAGU=, B.A., B.C.L., Lieut., 2nd Battn. Worcestershire Regt., eldest _s._ of the late Reginald Barrett Pope, of 41, Sussex Square, Brighton, LL.B., Solicitor, by his wife, Mary Richardson (4, The Cliff, Blackrock, Brighton), dau. of Alexander Reid; _b._ Brighton, Sussex, 6 Aug. 1888; educ. Brighton; Temple Grove, East Sheen (now Eastbourne), and won a scholarship for Winchester College, where he won an Exhibition for Brasenose College, Oxford (1907), taking there a seco |