Service Details
Name:
 STOKES
Given Name:
 FRANCIS RALPH
Initials:
 F R
Service No:
 220795
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Royal Armoured Corps
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Unit:
 144th (8th Bn. The East Lancashire Regt.) Regt.
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Date of Death:
 1944-08-23
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Date of Birth:
 1910-06-04
Age:
 34
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, while leading his troop into action against enemy rearguards east of Lisieux.
Additional
Information:
Son of Francis Maurice and Alice Lillian Stokes; husband of Rosemary Joan Stokes, of East Brent, Somerset. Entered Grey House in October 1923. He left Plumtree in December 1925. On Plumtree School Roll of Honour
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Calvados
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Cemetery:
 ST. DESIR WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 V. F. 4.

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