A BRAVE OFFICER'S DEATH

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2261, 22 September 1914, Page 5

A BRAVE OFFICER'S DEATH

HOW DR. POCKLEY WAS KILLED (Reo. September 21, 9.50 p.m.) Sydney, September 21. Details regarding Dr. Pookley's death at Herbetshohe disclose the fact that lie sacrificed Lis lifo for a wounded companion. As a member of the medical corps he accompanied the landing party and when the first encounter occurred was attending a wounded sailor. Finding it necessary to send him to Ihe rear he called a sailor and ordered him to oarry his mate to a Barer.position. To protect this man ho took off his own red cross coat and wrapped it round him. The doctor was attending other wounded men when he sustained a fatal revolver shot in the chest. The shot, it is alleged, was fired by a German officer. Captain Brian Pockloy was an officer of tho Army Medical Corps, and was a 6on of Dr. Antill Pockley, ophthalmic surgeon, of Macquario Street, Sydney. Ho was only 24 years of age. Ho had qualifiedfor tho medical profession this year. At tho time of volunteering for servico he was a member of tho medical staff of Sydney Hospital. He was a splendid all-round sportsman, and was one of tho best Rugby Union threequarter backs of recent years at Sydnoy University. Ho went to tho university from the Church of England Grammar School, whero he had distinguished himself in football, cricket, and athletics. He had represented his school at tho A.A.A. of great public schools' sports. In 1908 he won the runniiiß broad jump with 20ft. Bin., and tho 440 yards in 55 4-ssec. "So subsequently went to tlio university, where ho was entered as a student at St. Paul's Col-