Frederick Poole

{{Infobox military person

|name = Frederick Poole

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|birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1869|08|03}}

|birth_place =

|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1936|12|20|1869|08|03}}

|death_place = St Austell, Cornwall, England

|rank = Major General

|serviceyears = 1889–1914
1914–1920

|allegiance = United Kingdom

|branch = British Army

|commands = British North Russia Expeditionary Force

|battles = Tirah campaign
Second Boer War
Somaliland Campaign
First World War
North Russia Intervention

|awards = Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Companion of the Order of the Bath
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
Distinguished Service Order
Mentioned in Despatches
Legion of Honour (France)

}}

Major General Sir Frederick Cuthbert Poole, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|sep=,|KBE|CB|CMG|DSO|DL}} (3 August 1869 – 20 December 1936) was a British Army officer of the First World War and a Conservative parliamentary candidate.

Career

Poole attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in February 1889. He was promoted to lieutenant on 15 February 1892,{{London Gazette|issue=26265|date=8 March 1892|page=1350}} and served in the Tirah campaign in India from 1897 to 1898. Promotion to captain followed on 14 June 1899. Poole served in the Second Boer War in South Africa, for which he left on the SS British Prince in March 1900.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The War - Embarcation of Troops |date=13 March 1900 |page=6 |issue=36088}} He was attached to the ammunition column of the 8th Division, and was later in command of P Section Pom-poms, and was present at the engagements at Botha′s Pass, the storming of Alleman′s Nek (June 1900), the Battle of Bergendal and operations near Lydenburg (August 1900).Hart′s Army list, 1903 For his service, he was twice mentioned in despatches (including the final despatch by Lord Kitchener dated 23 June 1902{{London Gazette |issue=27459 |date=29 July 1902 |pages=4835–4840 }}), and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO).{{London Gazette |issue=27490|date=31 October 1902 |page=6899}}

Following the end of the war, Poole left Cape Town for England on the SS Simla in July 1902.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Army in South Africa – Return of Troops|date=12 August 1902 |page=10 |issue=36844}} From 1903 to 1904 he was with the Somaliland Field Force and participated in the Somaliland campaign. He then saw action in Northern Nigeria in 1904 and was promoted to captain from supernumerary captain in September 1906{{London Gazette|issue=27954|page=6628|date=2 October 1906}} and then, after being seconded for service as adjutant of a Militia unit in March 1907,{{London Gazette|issue=28039|page=4772|date=12 July 1907}} to major in 1909. He retired from the army in 1914.

Poole was recalled to service following the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. He became a lieutenant colonel in 1915, and was promoted to temporary major general, dated 26 May 1917.{{London Gazette|issue=30213|date=31 July 1917|page=7882|supp=y}} That same year he was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, and was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1918.{{London Gazette|issue=30450|date=1 January 1918|page=2|supp=y}} He served as General Officer Commanding, North Russia Expeditionary Force between 1918 and 1919, and was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1919. Poole retired as an honorary major general in 1920.{{London Gazette|issue=33458|date=18 January 1929|page=464}} Poole was honoured by several foreign governments during his military career, including being made a member of the French Legion of Honour (Officer) in 1916, the Russian Imperial Order of Saint Stanislaus (First Class) and Order of St. Vladimir (Third Class) in 1918, and the Romanian Order of the Crown (Officer) in 1918.{{London Gazette|issue=30476|date=14 January 1918|page=828|supp=y}}{{London Gazette|issue=30476|date=14 January 1918|page=827|supp=y}}{{London Gazette|issue=30610|date=4 April 1918|page=4093|supp=y}}{{London Gazette|issue=29548|date=15 April 1916|page=3994|supp=y}}

He stood as the Conservative candidate in the 1922 Bodmin by-election, but was defeated by Isaac Foot. He stood again for the seat in the 1922 and 1923 general elections, but was defeated by the incumbent on both occasions. He was a Deputy Lieutenant for Cornwall.{{London Gazette|issue=34334|date=23 October 1936|page=6765|supp=y}}

Bibliography

{{cite book|last=Poole|first=Henry|year=2023|title=General Sir Frederick Poole|publisher=Troubador Publishing|isbn=978-1803136073}}

References

External links

{{cite web|url=http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma/collection/p/po45-001|title=King's Collections : Archive Catalogues : POOLE, Maj Gen Sir Frederick Cuthbert (1869–1936)|accessdate=10 June 2016}}

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Category:Conservative Party (UK) parliamentary candidates

Category:Deputy lieutenants of Cornwall

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