Eric Poole
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Eric Skeffington Poole (January 20, 1885 – December 10, 1916), a Second Lieutenant in the West Yorkshires, was one of only three British officers executed during the First World War. After a stay in hospital, suffering from shell-shock, he was subsequently convicted of desertion and shot at Poperinghe on 10 December 1916.
Born in Nova Scotia, he arrived in England in 1905.
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