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Personnel Entry

Name Pollard James
Army number 7365448.
Rank Private.
Decorations Mentioned in Despatches and Service Awards.
Date of birth
Age 27 at the time of his death.
Unit Enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Posted to 187th Field Ambulance.
Company/Battery Not yet known.
Platoon or other sub-unit Not yet known.
Task or role Details awaited.
Joined Brigade Not yet confirmed but possibly when the 187th Field Ambulance joined the Brigade.
Promotions
Wounded Not as far as is known - other than the injuries which caused his death.
Prisoner of War No.
Died/Killed in action Killed in action 13/4/1945. Initially interred in Westervoort, Holland, map sheet 6, 1/25,000 781754. Reburied on 28/8/1946 in Uden War Cemetery, Netherlands, Grave 2.A.5. Headstone inscription reads "UNKNOWN TO THE WORLD HE STANDS BY MY SIDE AND WHISPERS "DEAR MOTHER"".
Home address Son of Mary Ellen Pollard of South Shields.
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