POLLARD, George
| Service Number: | 6390 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 June 1916, Melbourne, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 23rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Wycheproof, Vic., 1893 |
| Home Town: | Kensington, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Bolinda State School |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | 1982, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Bolinda State School Honour Roll, Riddells Creek Riddell District Honour Roll Plaque, Romsey Soldiers Honor Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 29 Jun 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6390, 23rd Infantry Battalion, Melbourne, Vic. | |
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| 23 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 6390, 23rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 23 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 6390, 23rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Peter Sneddon
Dan, Frank, George and Jim Pollard were brothers from a farming family in the Carlsruhe and Kyneton area. Their parents, Janet Billings and Squire Pollard married in 1881 and had eleven children: Robert John (b 1881), Caroline Anne (b. 1883), William Squire (b. 1885), Samuel (b. 1886), Alexander Gordon (b. 1888), Daniel (b. 1890), Ada May (b. 1891), George (b. 1893), James Hillard (b. 1895), Francis Henry (b. 1897), and Charles Pollard (b. 1899) (Photo 33). Unusually for that time period, all eleven children survived into adulthood.
Frank, James, Daniel, George as well as Charles attended Bolinda School sometime between 1899 and 1913
Frank and George both enlisted in mid-1916.
Like George McPherson, George Pollard suffered from varicocele which had rendered him unfit for service in the past. However, this time the medical officer deemed his varicocele symptoms to not be excessive and he was passed for entry to the armed forces. He appears to have spent the first part of his time overseas in England and it was not until August 1917 that he was transferred to the front line in France. In October 1917 he was wounded in action when he received a gunshot wound to his hands and buttock and was transferred to England for treatment. In July 1918, he was shipped back to Australia as the gunshot wound to his left hand rendered him incapable of fighting.
After returning from the war, George moved in with his mother and brothers, James and Charles and sister Ada May in Kensington and took work as a labourer. By the early 1940s, he was living in Northcote with Ethel Mary Pollard (relationship unknown) and working as a bank clerk. In 1947, he married Barbara Branch. It is not clear if they had children or not.
George continued to work as a bank clerk living with Barbara until the late 1960s when he became a bank officer and Ethel Mary moved back in the 1970s he was promoted to bank manager living at Maclead with Barbara, John David Pollard (teacher) and Roger Anthony William Pollard (trainee). He died in 1982