Frederick Ernest Poole

Rank 
Corporal
Regiment 
Manchester Regiment
Date of death 
23 September 1914
Age of death 
31
Address 
7 Stonycroft Road
Woodford Bridge
Woodford
RED
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Address source 
1901 Census
Cemetery / Memorial 
France
Biography 

Ernest Frederick Poole was born on 4th March 1883. He was the son of labourer Frederick and his wife, Alice Poole. In 1911, Ernest was living at 7 Stonycroft Road, Woodford Bridge with his family and he was working as a gas fitter’s labourer.

By 1914, Ernest was already in the 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment. The Battalion was sent to the front and arrived in Le Havre on 16th August 1914. They saw action at Mons and Le Cateau before the Germans were pushed back. Many casualties were sustained in these weeks.

 

At some point, Frederick Poole was injured and died of wounds on 23rd September 1914, perhaps in the Homeopathic Hospital at Neuilly-sur-Seine which was functioning as a Military Hospital at that time. Ernest was buried at Neuilly-sur-Seine New Communal Cemetery, France.

He is also commemorated on the Cenotaph at Newport in Gwent.

Research by Adrian Lee and Redbridge Museum

Sources:

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Ancestry.com