Brief profile of Robert Poole
by Don Ambrose


Player:RGC Poole

DateLine: 7th April 2008

POOLE, Robert George Conway
Born : 1902,
Died : November 1964.
Son of Col. Ivan Maxwell Conway Poole, Indian Army (Burma).
Entered Malvern College 1st Term 1916. Junior Chapel Prefect. Head of House. Cricket XI. F XXII. Left 1920.
Cadet Officer at Sandhurst Military Academy. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 1925 - Lieutenant; 1934 - Captain; Co.Officer at Sandhurst. 2nd World War - Commanded King's Own Yorkshire Light Industry 1942. 161 Brigade (Burma) 1944-45; Brigadier in Command of 3rd Infantry Brigade District (Palestine & Egypt) 1946 - 1949.
C.B.E. 1949.

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