Background
POOLE, Francis Garden was born on June 24, 1870 in St. Paul’s Cray, Kent. Y. c. of late Reverend S. W. Poole, Doctor of Medicine.
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Francis Garden POOLE
Francis Garden POOLE, British Inspector. Operations against the Angoni - Zulus, Northern Rhodesia, 1898 (medal with clasp); Railway Staff Officer, 1900-1 (Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, medal and clasp). Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Education
Cambridge; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Career
Entered army, 1892; Captain, 1899. Served Lake Shirwa Expedition. Central Africa, 1897.
Operations against the Angoni - Zulus, Northern Rhodesia, 1898 (medal with clasp). China, 1900; Siege of the Legations, Peking, 1900. Attached to Royal Marine Guard.
In command of volunteers of all nationalities and as adjutant of the defence (slightly wounded, despatches). China Field Force; Transport Officer, British Member of International Commission, Paoting Fu, to inquire into massacre of Europeans there and to punish the perpetrators. Railway Staff Officer, 1900-1901 (Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, medal and clasp).
Passed as interpreter Chinese language. Served in Bahr-elGhazal, Sudan, 1903-1904. Intelligence Department, Egyptian Army, 1907 - 8.
Has travelled in North and South America, India, Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Manchuria, and Siberia. Companion of the Distinguished Service Order 1900; East Yorkshire Regiment; attached Egyptian Army; Senior Inspector, Berber Province, Sudan.
Membership
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Clubs: Travellers’. United Service, Royal Societies.
Interests
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Foreign travel.
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Born
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Nationality
British
Official Titles
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Captain.
Awards
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Operations against the Angoni - Zulus, Northern Rhodesia, 1898 (medal with clasp). Railway Staff Officer, 1900-1 (Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, medal and clasp).Operations against the Angoni - Zulus, Northern Rhodesia, 1898 (medal with clasp). Railway Staff Officer, 1900-1 (Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, medal and clasp).