Mr James Walter Poole (1923-1927)

Captain attached to the 25th Mountain Regiment of the Royal Indian Artillery. He was very badly wounded when the Japanese took Singapore and was shot by his comrades so as not to leave him to the enemy during the panicked withdrawal to Burma. He has no known grave, but is commemorated with 27,000 others on Face 2 of the Rangoon Memorial at the Taukkyan Cemetery, and on the war memorial obelisk that stands on Bexhill seafront, on the Sussex coast.