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Private C Stokes

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Private Charles STOKES, G/15354, 2nd Battalion,   Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died Gerard Freeman Thomas War Hospital, Bombay, of disease, Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, 30th August 1917.

Born Alconbury, Huntingdonshire, son of Arthur & Elizabeth Stokes.

1911 Census - Alconbury Weston, Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire - Arthur Stokes, head, age 57, married, farm labourer, farm, worker, born Woodhurst, Huntingdonshire; Elizabeth Stokes, wife, age 57, married 33 years, 12 children, 11 still alive, born Ellington, Huntingdonshire; Nellie Stokes, daughter, age 29, single, cook, born Wilden, Bedfordshire; Charles Stokes, son, age 24, single, farm labourer, worker, born Steeple Gidding, Huntingdonshire; Florence Stokes, daughter, age 11, born Alconbury, Huntingdonshire; John Edward Oven, visitor, age 33, single, farm labourer, farm, worker, born Sawtry, Huntingdonshire.

2nd April 1913, St Andrew, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, Charles Stokes, married Annie Jones.

Children - Clive Stokes, born 29th August 1913, High Street, Dormansland, Surrey.

Enlisted Lingfield, Surrey, age 29, height 5ft 6 inches, weight 149lbs.  Resided Ladycross Cottage, Wilderwick, Dormansland, Surrey / 18 West Delph, Whittlesea, Cambridgeshire / 6 Becley Yard, High Stree, Whittlesea, Peterborough.

Home 13th November 1915 to 11th September 1916; BEF 12th September 1916 to 12th November 1916; Home 13th November 1916 to 7th February 1917; MEF 8th February 1917 to 30th August 1917.

13th November 1915, enlisted; 14th December 1915, to Army Reserve; 29th May 1916, mobilized; 30th May 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 12th September 1916, posted BEF; 12th September 1916, embarked / disembarked; 23rd September 1916, joined 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, In the Field; 5th October 1916, wounded in action; 10th October 1916, to England, ex 23 General Hospital, Etaples, gun shot wound scalp; 13th November 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 8th February 1917, posted 2nd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 9th February 1917, Devonport, embarked; 23rd May 1917, Basra, disembarked; 23rd June 1917, 40 General Hospital, admitted; 30th June 1917, 40 General Hospital, discharged to Duty; 11th July 1917, 40 General Hospital, admitted; 17th July 1917, transferred sick to India.

22nd January 1918, War Office memo to Infantry Records -  15354 Private C Stokes, 2nd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment. Reported died 31st August 1917, from abscess of liver (P.G.11441.) Reported died 30th August 1917 - Gerard Freeman Thomas War Hospital, Bombay, (List H.D.4195). With reference to your enquiry (No.C.5808.) dated 16th November 1917, regarding the correct date of death of Private  Stokes, please accept 30th August 1917, the date given in the Hospital Report as correct.

22nd January 1962, exhumed from Bombay (Sewri) Cemetery and reburied at Kirkee War Cemetery in a mass grave in front of existing memorial & commemorated at Kirkee 1914-1918 Memorial, Face E, India.