British Army Veterinary Corps
Daniel POLLOCK
Captain
Died 15 April 1917 · Aged 32
His story
Captain Daniel Pollock MRCVS, the younger son of veterinarian James Pollock, was born in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, in 1885.
He graduated from the Veterinary College Glasgow in 1915 and enlisted soon after. He was quickly promoted to the rank of Captain.
He was aboard the troop ship Arcadian when it was torpedoed and sunk on 15 April 1917 by U-Boat UC 74 in the Aegean Sea while transporting troops from Salonika to Alexandria in Egypt. Thirty-five crew members and 242 troops perished from the 1,335 on board at the time.
His death is commemorated in the Mikra Memorial in Greece.
Captain Pollock was reported as missing and believed to have drowned in the Veterinary Record on 12 May 1917. His death was confirmed in the May 26 issue.
Photographs and documents
Before the war
- Nationality
- British
- Date of Birth
- 1885
- Place of Birth
- Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
- Veterinary College and Date of Graduation
- Glasgow - December 1914
Military service
- Last Rank
- Captain
- Regiment/Service
- British Army Veterinary Corps
Medals and commemoration
- Name on RCVS Honour Board
- Yes
- Name In Officers who died in Great War
- Yes
- Medals and Awards
- British War Medal 1914-1918; Victory Medal
Death and burial
- Date of Death
- 15 April 1917
- Age at Death
- 32
- Place of Death
- Mediterran Sea off Greece, Greece
- Cause of Death
- Drowned by ship sunk by U-Boat
- Cemetery
- Mikra Memorial for HT Aarcadian
- Location
- Mikra, Greece
- Grave Reference
- Memorial Panel
- Commonwealth War Grave
- Yes - Memorial Panel
Sources and further reading
- CWGC casualty and commemoration record
- Find a Grave memorial
- HT ARCADIAN
- The Veterinary Record, 12 and 26 May 1917 — cited in the earlier biography
- The Hamilton Advertiser May 12, 1917 — reproduced document
Cite this biography
Graham Hodgkins and Pete Matthews, “Daniel Pollock”, Veterinary Virtual War Memorial, https://vetsremembered.org/people/daniel_pollock/.
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