Eric Skeffington Poole (20 January 1885 in Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...

 – 10 December 1916), was a Second Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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 in the West Yorkshires

West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own)

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, was one of only three British

United Kingdom

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 officers executed during the First World War.

After a stay in hospital

Hospital

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, suffering from shell-shock, he was subsequently convicted of desertion and shot at Poperinghe on 10 December 1916.

Poole arrived in England

England

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 in 1905.

External links

• Service record of an executed officer: Eric Skeffington Poole
• Soldat fusillé pour l'exemple