Edward Poole

Bank: Westminster Bank

Place of work: Bromley branch

Died: 15 November 1941

 

Edward George Poole was born in November 1911, the son of George Blisset Poole and Edith Annie Poole. He joined the staff of Westminster Bank in April 1930, and from July 1938 worked at the bank's Bromley branch. A colleague there later described him as 'a quiet, unassuming colleague, who never became ruffled in the most trying circumstances, but invariably kept his good-humoured calmness.'

 

During the Second World War he left the bank to join the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. He completed his pilot's training in 1941, but a few weeks later, on 15 November 1941, was killed along with the rest of the crew of the Wellington bomber of which he was second pilot. Pilot Officer Poole was 30 years old and left a widow, Kathleen, whom he had married in 1939.

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