Private 152614 Sydney Richard STOKES

Private 152614 Sydney Richard Stokes{gallery}Pte S R Stokes{/gallery}50th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps. Formerly 28710 Wiltshire Regiment

Killed in action in France and Flanders, 7th October 1918, aged 20.

• Buried: Prospect Hill Cemetery, Gouy, Aisne, France. Grave III.E.6
  
• Awarded: Yet to be established
  
• Son of Richard and Clara Cash Stokes [nee Adcock] of 27 Bridge Street, Polesworth [1918]
• NNWFHS Memorial: Polesworth St Editha and Atherstone Grammar School
  

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for Private Stokes
• NNWFHS Polesworth War Memorial Page
• Prospect Hill Cemetery
• Machine Gun Corps

1911 Census and Family History Information

• Born Oct Qtr 1898 in Polesworth.
  
• He was a schoolboy in 1911