Pollard James Private 7365448 - Revision history

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Created page with "{{personnel |Surname and forenames=Pollard James |Army number=7365448. |Rank=Private. |Decorations=Mentioned in Despatches and Service Awards. |Date of birth= |Age=27 at the t..."

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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=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.
|Image Name=File:Pollard_James_187th_Field_Ambulance.jpg
|Image Title=Private James Pollard.
}}

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 |Army number=7365448.
 |Rank=Private.
-|Decorations=Mentioned in Despatches and Service Awards.
+|Decorations=Mentioned in Despatches (gazetted posthumously 8/11/1945) and Service Awards.
 |Date of birth=Birth registered Q1 1918 South Shields.
 |Age=27 at the time of his death.

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 |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"".
+|Died/Killed in action=Killed in action 13/4/1945.  It seems, from the Field Ambulance War Diary, that the ambulance in which Private Pollard was travelling was the subject of a direct hit from a shell, which killed both him and the casualties being carried.  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 (nee Gates) of South Shields.  Father James Pollard.
 |Image Name=Pollard_James_187th_Field_Ambulance.jpg
 |Image Title=Private James Pollard.
 }}