Service in Africa

[dante]

Single 1914/15 Star, Captain George Arthur Evered Poole MBE,
MBE for services as District Political Officer at Yendi, Upper Togoland.

Served 5th Bn Middlesex Regiment in South Africa, QSA clasps Cape 

Colony, Transvaal and South Africa 1902.

Second Lieutenant G. A. E. Poole, 5th Battalion Middlesex Regiment, is granted the local rank of Lieutenant in the Army whilst employed with the West African Frontier Force Dated 21st February 1903.

George Arthur Evered (George Arthur Evered) Poole, Born 1873 in North Camp, Aldershot, Hampshire, England, Son of William John Evered Poole and Mary Elizabeth (Waters)

1899 Cadet colonial officer, 1903 Lieutenant Gold Coast Regiment, 1910 District commissioner Volta River district, 1917 Political officer Yendi Togoland, 1920-21 Commissioner Northern Territory's, retired

Captain Poole died 1 Dec 1935 Winchester

Noted in many books on the subject of the Gold Coast and Togoland

[peter monahan]

Very nice indeed!