DEATH OF DR. POCKLEY.
.GAVE HIS LIFE FOR A COMRADE.
(Press Assn.Recd. 9.50 p.m.)
SYDNEY, Sept. 22
Details of Dr. Pockley's death at Herbertshoe (Bismarck Archipelago) disclose that he sacrificed his life for a wounded comrade. As a member of the medical corps he accompanied the landing party, when the first encounter occurred. Attending to a wounded sailor, and finding it necessary to send him to the rear, he called a sailor and ordered Trim to carry his mate to a safer position. To protect this man he took off his own Red Cross coat and wrapped it round- him.
The doctor was attending to other wounded when he received a fatal revolver shot in the chest, allegedly fired by a German officer.
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Northern Advocate, 22 September 1914, Page 5
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