Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookite, of Brentnor, Tavistock, co. Devon, M.R.C.S., by his wife, Emma Elizabeth, dau. of the Rev. H. M. Joyce, Vicar of Penton; _b._ Stapleton, co. Cumberland, 11 June, 1893; educ. King's College, Taunton, and Tavistock Grammar School; went to Australia in March, 1911, and settled at Burrowa, New South Wales, and later at Winton, Queensland, as a Station Hand; joined the Australian Light Horse at Brisbane in Jan. 1915; left for Egypt in March; went to the Dardanelles, Aug. 1915, and was killed in action there, 2 Nov. following, while serving his machine gun; _unm._ Buried in Shell Green Cemetery, Anzac, Gallipoli. His company officer wrote: "Your son had recently been transferred from my squadron to the machine-gun section of this regt. (5th Light Horse), a position which he quickly learnt. At all times he proved himself to be a good soldier, as able and willing to perform the many fatigue duties as he was resourceful in the firing line"; and a comrade: "There were a good many of the men rolled up to see him buried: fellows from his own regt. and also from the one to which he was posted. From the Major downwards, your son was tremendously popular, and the men are very cut up at his loss. A cross, bearing his name, regt., age, and date of death, was erected by his regimental comrades." [Illustration: =John Joyce Postlethwaite.=] =POTTER, BERT=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2622), 284614, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =POTTER, FRANK WILLIAM=, Private, No. 9478, 3rd Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Henry Potter, of 198, Bedford Hill, S.W., member of the firm of Henry Potter & Co., West Street, Charing Cross, Army Musical Instrument Makers, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of George Lash; and a great grandson of the late Samuel Potter, of the Coldstream Guards, who compiled and published in 1815 the authorised Bugle, Drum and Fife Calls, including the Last Post, a revised edition of which is now in use in the Army and Navy; _b._ Sidcup, Kent, 19 Aug. 1887; educ. Cheltonia College, Streatham, S.W. (where he won the prize for "High Character"); went to Canada about 1903 and was in Dakota when war was declared; went to Toronto and volunteered for Imperial service Aug. 1914; came over with the first Canadian contingent in Oct.; went to France early in Feb., served through the Second Battle of Ypres, and the various engagements during the early part of 1915, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 16 June, 1915; _unm._ Buried near Givenchy, behind trench No. 19, 500 yards east of the "Ducks Bill." [Illustration: =Frank William Potter.=] =POTTER, MAURICE HENRY=, L.-Corpl., No. 11182, 1st Battn. Sherwood Foresters, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regt., 4th _s._ of Elijah William Potter, of Six-Mile Bottom, Newmarket, co. Cambridge, Goods Porter on the Great Eastern Railway at Six-Mile Bottom Station, by his wife, Jane, dau. of James Cook; _b._ Six-Mile Bottom, 1 May, 1891; educ. Council School there; enlisted in the Sherwood Foresters, 2 March, 1909; served in India, Sept. 1911 to Oct. 1914, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, Nov. 1914 to 1 Feb. 1915, on which latter date he was killed in action near La Bassée, and was buried 30 yards west of the Estaires-La Bassée Road; _unm._ He gained the 2nd Class Certificate of Education 19 Dec. 1909, and a 1st Class Certificate of the same, 27 March, 1913; he also gained four good conduct badges, and the swimming certificate at Bombay, 17 Jan. 1914. His three brothers are all now (1916) on active service. [Illustration: =Maurice Henry Potter.=] =POTTER, VICTOR JAMES=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 25352 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke, _s._ of William Henry Potter, of 23, George Street, Sutton, co. Surrey; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =POTTER, WILLIAM FREDERICK=, Bugler, No. 1255, 1/21st Battn. (1st Surrey Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of Reuben Potter, of 33, D'Eynsford Road, Camberwell, London, S.E., Pensioner, by his wife, Jane, dau. of the late John Faux, of Leatherhead; _b._ King's Cross, London, N., 1 Aug. 1895; educ. Grove Lane Board School, Camberwell; was employed by Warner & Sons, 3 and 4, Newgate Street; joined the 1st Surrey Rifles, 20 Dec. 1911; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 16 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 25 May following; _unm._ Buried there. =POTTER, WILLIAM JOHN=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8288), 207367, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =POTTERTON, LEWIS JOHN=, A.B., S.S. 618, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =POTTS, GEORGE=, L.-Corpl., No. 15741, 15th (Service) Battn. Durham L.I., eldest _s._ of Thomas Farrar Potts, of 17, Grosvenor Street, Southwick-on-Wear, Shipyard Labourer, by his wife, Mary Ellen (died 1910), dau. of Joseph Rooney, of Southwick; _b._ Southwick, 14 March. 1895; educ. Board School there; was employed at Hylton Colliery; enlisted 7 Sept. 1914, trained at Halton, Yorks; was promoted L.-Corpl. and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 26 Sept. 1915; _unm._ He was buried in Loos Cemetery. [Illustration: =George Potts.=] =POUGHER, WILLIAM ANDREW=, Corpl., No. 8395, 2nd Battn. Leicestershire Regt., eldest _s._ of Samuel Thomas Pougher, and nephew of A. D. Pougher, the famous Leicestershire cricketer; _b._ Leicester, 1889; educ. Holy Trinity Schools there; enlisted in the 2nd Leicestershires, March, 1908, and served in India for six years, being drafted direct to France on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action, 27 July, 1915; _unm._ Sergt. W. Andrews wrote that "Corpl. Pougher was his best scout, and right-hand man." =POUGHER, WILLIAM HENRY=, 2nd Yeoman of Signals (R.F.R., B. 647), 164970, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =POULTNEY, HARRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3125), S.S. 100753, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =POULTON, JAMES=, Private, No. 6493, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of Joseph Poulton, of Ladywood, Birmingham, by his wife, Annie; _b._ Birmingham, 10 July, 1888; enlisted 9 Dec. 1905; served three years with the Colours, and then joined the Reserve for nine years; called up on mobilisation, 5 Aug. 1914, and was reported missing after the fighting at Soissons, 14 Sept. 1914, and is now assumed to have been killed in action that day. He _m._ at All Saints' Church, Birmingham, 8 Oct. 1911, Florence Ann (200, Bolton Road, South Heath, Birmingham), dau. of Thomas Chater, and had two children: Thomas James, _b._ 8 May, 1914; and Irene May, _b._ 9 Oct. 1912. [Illustration: =James Poulton.=] =POULTON, WILLIAM MITCHELL=, A.B., 213679, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =POVEY, GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3752), 186391, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in acti |