POOLE, Harry Beauchamp
| Service Number: | 33843 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 10th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Narrandera, New South Wales, Australia, 11 August 1895 |
| Home Town: | Junee, Junee, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Junee Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 16 April 1918, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
Frechencourt Communal Cemetery Row B, Grave 15 Headstone Inscription "AT REST" |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 11 May 1917: | Involvement Driver, 33843, Field Artillery Brigades, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Shropshire embarkation_ship_number: A9 public_note: '' | |
|---|---|---|
| 11 May 1917: | Embarked Driver, 33843, Field Artillery Brigades, HMAT Shropshire, Melbourne | |
| 16 Apr 1918: | Involvement Driver, 33843, 10th Field Artillery Brigade , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 33843 awm_unit: 10th Australian Field Artillery Brigade awm_rank: Driver awm_died_date: 1918-04-16 |
Help us honour Harry Beauchamp Poole's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.
Add my storyBiography contributed by Daryl Jones
Son of Harry Beauchamp Minnie Maud POOLE, of Denison Street, Junee Junction, New South Wales.
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Harry Beauchamp POOLE (Service Number 33843) was born on 11th August 1895 at Narrandera. He first worked for the NSW Government Railways as a probationer in the Traffic Branch in the Junee District from 16th September 1910. On 1st January 1911 he became a junior porter and on 16th August 1915 a junior clerk. On his 21st birthday in 1916 he was designated a clerk. Soon after this, on 9th November he was granted leave to join the Expeditionary Forces, although he had in fact enlisted at the Royal Agricultural Society Showground Camp (at Moore Park in Sydney) a week before. He gave his father living in Junee as his next of kin and claimed three years’ experience in the Militia where he was still serving.
He was allotted to the 7th Reinforcements to the 10th Field Artillery Brigade. Poole embarked HMAT ‘Marathon’ at Sydney on 10thy May 1917 and reached Devonport (England) on 20th July. After a few months further training in England, Driver Poole proceeded overseas to France through Southampton and was taken on the strength of the 4th Division Artillery Column on 23rd October, then the 10th Field Artillery and the 39th Battery.
He was killed in action in France on 16th April 1918 and buried in the Fréchencourt Communal Cemetery 7½ miles NNE of Amiens. Bombardier A. W. Brand reported:
‘I saw Poole killed instantaneously. A fragment of shell hit him on the head, he was trying to get his horses away they were killed at the same time.’
Driver M Wyatt (34850) stated:
‘He was a very fat chap, dark, we called him “Pudden”.’
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.