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• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Wortelgat
• Land Cape Province, South Africa
• Last residence Hermanus
• Family Only son of John Evered Poole and Henrietta Poole, of Mossel River, Hermanus, Cape, South Africa
• Education Wynberg High School; S.A. College
• Profession Civil engineer
• Extra info His parents visited the grave in March 1918; the hospital ship they came with was torpedoed on the way back; they survived;

Military service

• Rank Second Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit 73rd Field Coy. Royal Engineers 33/Fld Army Tps Co (from 'Soldiers died')

Death

• Wounded 22 August, shelled while working on the Brandhoek Dump
• Type of wounds Died of wounds in n°17 CCS
• Died at the age of 23
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XVI - A - 5

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