Died of septicemia and myocarditis, whilst a POW, in the hospital at Piacenza. He had been wounded and captured near Tobruk on 5 June 1942 and shipped to Italy
Son of William Burt Pope and Elizabeth Beldon, of Villa Nova, Mossel Bay, Cape Province. Born in Heidelberg, Cape Province. Worked for the Dept Posts and Telegraphs in Pietermaritzburg. On Mossel Bay War Memorial, Western Cape.