Eric Skeffington Poole (20 January 1885 in Nova Scotia – 10 December 1916), was a Second Lieutenant in the West Yorkshires, was one of only three British officers executed during the First World War. After a stay in hospital, suffering from shell shock, he was subsequently convicted of desertion and shot at Poperinghe on 10 December 1916. Poole arrived in England in 1905.