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Cpl. Edward Earnest Poole
British Army C Sqn. 3rd Dragoon Guards
from:Cwmbelan
(d.20th Nov 1914)
Edward Poole was born in Welshpool, Powys, his father was a Sergeant of police and his parents lived in Cwmbelan, a tiny village on the Welshpool Aberystwyth Road, just west of Llanidloes. He loved horses and joined the 3rd Dragoon Guards from the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry in 1909. In 1912 he went to Egypt with the regiment to guard the Suez Canal.
When war was declared the regiment was shipped back to the UK from Alexandria to Liverpool. From there they moved to Ludgershall in Wiltshire and then to Southampton. Taking the RMS Victorian they arrived in Le Havre on the 31st of October 1914 before joining the 3rd Brigade, 6th Division at Ypres on 4th of November 1914.
Edward was wounded in the Zillebeke Trenches, South East of Ypres, during the First Battle of Ypres, on 17th of November 1914 and died of his wounds, aged 27, on 20th of November 1914. He is buried in Poperinge Old Military Cemetery, close to some of his colleagues, who we assume died in the same action.
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