[2] He served with his regiment in the Netherlands during the War of the Spanish Succession, and was present at the battle of Malplaquet in 1709.
[1][4] He was actively employed in suppressing the rebellion in Scotland in 1715 and 1716; on 22 December 1726 he became captain in Humphrey Gore's Regiment of Dragoons, and on 9 March 1732 he was promoted to major.
[6] On 10 August 1749 King George II rewarded his long and faithful service with the colonelcy of the 10th Regiment of Foot.
[8] Lieutenant-General Pole died at Park Hall, Derbyshire, on 22 December 1762, aged eighty.
[9] His son Edward Sacheverell Pole (1718–1780) was also an army officer, serving at the Battle of Fontenoy and reaching the rank of colonel.