Family :

Education & Career :

He was a scholar of Winchester and came to Winchester from Temple Grove School. He was appointed a School Prefect in 1906 and the year after won the Duncan Prize for Reading. He was a member of College XV and shot for Wimbledon VIII. He went up to Brasenose College and held successively a Hulme Exhibition and a Senior Hulme Scholarship. At Oxford he took honours in Moderations, with a second class; also a second class in Greats, in jurisprudence, and in the B.C.L. examination. He stroked for college the 2nd Torpid and the 2nd Eight in 1911, and the 1st Torpid in 1912, in which year he again rowed in the 2nd Eight. He also played Association Football for his college. After leaving College he was articled to his father's firm, and was in the second year of his articles.

At the University he stroked for his college the 2nd Torpid and the 2nd Eight in 1911, and the 1st Torpid in 1912, in which year he again rowed in the 2nd Eight. He also played Association Football for his college.

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

19 October - 22 November 1914. Following the failure of the German Schlieffen Plan in August and September 1914, both sides engaged in a series of linked battles as they sought to outflank each other. The climax of these manouvres was at Ypres in November 1914 when the might of the German Army attempted to break the much outnumbered British Expeditionary Force. The political importance of Ypres, being the last town of any size in Belgium that remained in allied hands, established its importance for both sides and ensured a series of battles over four years.

The First Battle of Ypres in 1914 is characterised by a series of linked heroic stands by outnumbered British soldiers in conditions of confusion and weary endurance. The Germans never knew how close they had come to winning - at one point just the clerks and cooks were the last line of defence for the BEF. By the end of the battle the magnificent original BEF, composed of professional regular soldiers, had been all but destroyed and already the Territorial battalions were called into battle. From the end of 1914 a 'Regular' battalion was in terms of its compostion little different to a Teritorial or later Service Battalion. The professional soldiers had all but vanished.

Detail :

Lieutenant Cyril Montague Pope, 2nd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment. Fell at Polygon Wood on October 24th 1914, leading a charge, later dying of the wounds sustained "in the woods to the east of Ypres while leading on his men most gallantly against a strong position of the enemy".

The 2/Worcesters cleared Polygon Wood on 24 October 1914 in a successful but very costly attack. The 200 men who fell that day ( including six officers of whom Cyril POPE was one), made it a costlier battle than the more famous Gheluvelt attack mounted by the same battalion 7 days later from a start point still in Polygon Wood.

See also: Official History Military Operations France and Belgium 1914 Vol II

Masonic :

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley
• Website : Sussex People - Masonic Roll