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Private HERBERT JAMES STOKES

Service Number: 35710
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps

56th Coy.

Date of Death

Died 13 November 1916

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY, CONTAY

IV. D. 17.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of David and Jemima Stokes, of Upper Caldecote, Beds.
  • Personal Inscription DEATH DIVIDES BUT MEMORY CLINGS TO OUR DEAR BOY, FROM HIS LOVING MOTHER AND FATHER
FOR EVERMORE: STORIES OF THE FALLEN
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Buried or commemorated at

CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY, CONTAY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1133
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