Pollard James Private 7365448
Personnel Entry
Name Pollard James
Army number 7365448.
Rank Private.
Decorations Mentioned in Despatches and Service Awards.
Date of birth Birth registered Q1 1918 South Shields.
Age 27 at the time of his death.
Unit Enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Posted to 187th Field Ambulance. Served Normandy and North West Europe. Killed in action 13/4/1945.
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 None known.
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. 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.
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