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Ponder, Frank Vaulouve, brother of Eric Milton Ponder (q.v.); b. June 5, 1895; adm. Jan. 20, 1910 (R); left Easter 1912; a clerk in the Local Government Guarantee Soc. 1912; 2nd Lieut. Bucks Batt. (T.F.) Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry Sept. 16, 1917, attached M.G.C.; served in France and Flanders; m. May 30, 1925, Mary Mona, younger daughter of John Patterson, of Beckenham, Kent; d. June 6, 1929.

Pollock, Edward Denis, son of Rev. Edward Downing Pollock, Vicar of Oxton, Cheshire; b. 13 Aug. 1910; adm. May 1924 (R); left July 1924.

Pollard, Hugh Bertie Campbell, only son of Joseph Pollard, M.R.C.S., of St. Marylebone, by Helen Dora Colebrook, daughter of Frederick Hendricks, F.F.A., F.S.A., of Kensington; b. Jan. 6, 1884; adm. Sept. 30, 1897 (R); left Dec. 1903; 2nd Lieut. 25th Cyclist Batt. London Regt. May 9, 1912; Lieut. Nov. 6, 1914; Capt. June 1, 1916; special correspondent of the Daily Express 1912-20; Staff Officer (Intelligence) War Office 1916-18; at the Irish Office 1920-2; sporting editor of Country Life 1922; an authority on ancient and modern fire-arms; admitted to the Middle Temple Oct. 24, 1918; Major, General Staff (War Office) 1940; Chevalier, Imperial Order, Red Arrows of Spain; author of The Secret Societies of Ireland (1922) and other works; m. 1914 Ruth Marie, daughter of Francis Gibbons, of Penn Hall, Staffs.; d. Mar. 1966.

Plowman, John Frederick, son of George Richard Plowman of Hampstead and Ida Clarice, d. of Frederick John Ruse of Hampstead; b. 11 June 1916; adm. May 1930 (R); left July 1932; RA 1940-6 (Maj.), Croix de Guerre 1944, despatches (NW Europe) Apr. 1946; a wine shipper; Mas­ ter of Wine 1954; chairman Saccone & Speed Ltd 1975; m. 8 Mar. 1947 Elsie Frances, d. of Frank A. Bristow of Effingham, Surrey; d. 19 Feb. 1987.

Plow, Richard Henry, son of Henry Plow; b. July 31, 1896; adm. Sept. 28, 1911 (R); left July 1913; Pennsylvania Univ., U.S.A.

Plesch, Andrew Odilo, son of John Oskar Plesch, Prof. of Medicine, Berlin Univ., and Melanie, d. of Adolf Gans of Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; b. 29 Nov. 1923; adm. Sept. 1937 (R); left Dec. 1940; RAF 1942-6; Lloyd’s 1946-50; an insurance adjuster Toronto, Canada 1950-8; pres. Anglo Adjusters Canada Ltd. 1958; m. 7 Oct. 1950 Joan, d. of H. R. Hunt of Aylesbury, Bucks; d. 4 Nov. 1998.

Platt, Stuart Henry, son of Thomas Glyn Platt, chartered accountant, of Bickley, Kent, and Anita Mary, d. of Henry Cartmel; b. 9 Aug. 1926; adm. May 1940 (R); left Mar. 1943; called to the Bar, Middle Temple Jan. 1948; adm. solicitor July 1955; practised at Bromley, Kent; d. 20 Jan. 1969.

Pippett, Victor Donald, son of Donald Radbone Pippett of Eastbourne, Sussex and Hilda Muriel, d. of R. Brice of Chingford, Essex; b. 23 Mar. 1929; adm. Sept. 1945 (R); left July 1947; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1947, BA 1950, MA 1954; Middlesex Hosp. Med. Sch., BM BCh 1953; emigrated to Australia; med. practitioner successively in Tasmania, Canberra and Victoria; m. 2 June 1951 Charitie Warren, d. of Joseph Warren McKillop Nicholl MD MRCS LRCP, gen. med. practitioner, of Lewes, Sussex; d. 11 May 2014.

Pink, Frederick Wallace, son of John Edward Pink, of Cosham, Hants, by Jessie Frances, daughter of Frederick Wallace Wink, of West Worthing, Sussex; b. Sept. 8, 1894; adm. Jan. 14, 1909 (R); left July 1913; Brasenose Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1913; R.M.C. Sand­hurst 1914; 2nd Lieut. 18th Hussars Nov. 11, 1914; Lieut. Jan. 30, 1917; Capt. Sept. 24, 1924; Adjt. Feb. 1, 1926; served in France May 1915 - March 1919; retired as Capt. 13th/18th Royal Hussars March 1928; A.R.I.C.S.; re-employed in Great War II as Capt. at H.Q. Western Command; m. March 5, 1925, Audrey, daughter of Alfred Edwin Wright, of Cambridge; d. 25 Sept. 1979.

Pilkington, Peter, son of Peter Pilkington MIMechE, of Cheam, Surrey, and Doris Mildred, d. of Alfred Edgar Bolley of Seaford, Sussex; b. 19 June 1937; adm. Sept. 1951 (R); left July 1955; AA Sch. of Architecture 1958-63; ARIBA 1967; an architect; m. 31 Oct. 1964 Catherine Mary, d. of William Hamilton Shortt, civil engineer, of Exeter, Devon; d. 1995.