POOLE, John Richardson
| Service Number: | 428 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 July 1914, Serving 9th Light Horse Regiment, Camden |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Camden, New South Wales, Australia, May 1888 |
| Home Town: | Camden, Camden, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Coach Driver |
| Died: | SW neck & face & Acute Lobar Pneumonia, Died of wounds, Military Hospital, Shorncliffe, England, United Kingdom, France, 5 November 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Shorncliffe Military Cemetery, Kent, England Shorncliffe Military Cemetery (Row Q, Grave No. 465), Kent, England, Shorncliffe Military Cemetery, Shorncliffe, Kent, England, United Kingdom, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Jul 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Corporal, 428, 1st Light Horse Regiment, Serving 9th Light Horse Regiment, Camden | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Sergeant, 428, 1st Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Star of Victoria embarkation_ship_number: A16 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Sergeant, 428, 1st Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Star of Victoria, Sydney | |
| 20 Jun 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 1st Light Horse Regiment | |
| 12 Oct 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Sergeant, 428, 2nd Infantry Battalion, 'The Winter Offensive' - Flers/Gueudecourt winter of 1916/17, Bomb wounds face and neck DOW Military Hospital, Shorncliffe | |
| 5 Nov 1916: | Involvement Sergeant, 428, 2nd Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 428 awm_unit: 2 Battalion awm_rank: Sergeant awm_died_date: 1916-11-05 | |
| 6 Nov 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Sergeant, 2nd Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
The summary below was completed by Cathy Sedgwick – Facebook “WW1 Australian War Graves in England/UK/Scotland/Ireland
Died on this date – 5th November…… John Richardson Poole was born in Camden, NSW in 1886. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) on 22nd August, 1914 as a 26 year old, single, Coach-driver from Camden, NSW.
John Richardson Poole was posted to 1st Light Horse as Provisional Sergeant on 22nd August, 1914 & embarked from Sydney, NSW on HMAT Star of Victoria (A16) on 20th October, 1914. He proceeded to join the M.E.F. (Mediterranean Expeditionary Force) at Gallipoli on 9th May, 1915.
(Prov.) Sergeant John Richardson Poole was promoted to Temporary Sergeant on 20th May, 1915 at Gallipoli Peninsula – vice Sergeant R. S. Smith, 470, killed. He was sent to Hospital on 10th July, 1915 – cause not yet determined & rejoined his Unit on 21st July, 1915.
On 22nd August, 1915 Sergeant Poole was sent to Hospital again. He was admitted to 19th General Hospital at Alexandria on 5th September, 1915 with enteric & embarked on 23rd September, 1915 from Alexandria on Hospital Ship Karoola for England. He was admitted to 2nd Western General Hospital at Cardiff on 5th October, 1915.
Sergeant Poole was transferred from 1st Light Horse to 2nd Battalion on 6th September, 1916 & proceeded overseas to France to Reinforcements of 2nd Battalion on 16th September, 1916. He joined 2nd Battalion in the field in Belgium on 29th September, 1916.
On 12th October, 1916 Sergeant John Richardson Poole was wounded in action. He was admitted to 2nd Field Ambulance with a wound to neck. He was transferred to Casualty Clearing Station then transferred & admitted to No. 13 Stationary Hospital at Boulogne, France on 15th October, 1916 with wounds to neck (severe). Sergeant Poole was transferred to England on Hospital Ship Jan Breydel on 18th October, 1916.
He was admitted to St. Anselm’s, Walmer, Kent, England on 18th October, 1916 with shrapnel wounds to head & neck.
Sergeant John Richardson Poole died at 4.30 pm on 5th November, 1916 at Military Hospital*, Shorncliffe from wounds received in action – shrapnel wounds to neck and face (& Acute Lobar Pneumonia).
(* information provided for the Red Cross – the O.C. of St. Anselm’s V.A.D. Hospital, Walmer states that Sergeant Poole died at St. Anselm’s & was then taken to Shorncliffe Military Hospital.)
He was buried in Shorncliffe Military Cemetery, Folkestone, Kent, England where 10 other WW1 Australian War Graves are located.
(The above is a summary of my research. The full research can be found by following the link below)
https://ww1austburialsuk.weebly.com/folkestone.html
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