The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

spoons · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:04 pm Post subject: LCpl J Pool, Dumfries

Not listed on UKNIWM

Location in the entrance to Maxwelltown High School, Dumfries at OS Map Ref NX 949 781.

Joseph Pool was killed by an RPG in Helmand on 5th September 2010. His name has not yet been added to SNWM or the Armed Forces memorial so this information is from the BBC website. LCpl Pool served with 1st Bn the Royal Scots Borderers, Royal Regiment of Scotland. Further details can be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11202142.

My thanks to Mrs Joy Taylor at Maxwelltown High School for liaising with Joseph Pool's family for permission to photograph and post this memorial.

In memory of
Lance Corporal Joseph Pool
(aged 26 years)
a former pupil of
Maxwelltown High School, 1995 - 1999
who gave his life fighting for peace
in Afghanistan in 2010
"QUIET BUT INSPIRATIONAL"
funded by the pupils of Maxwelltown High School