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Private SAMUEL STOKES

Service Number: 72775
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps

25th Coy.

Date of Death

Died 29 August 1917

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY

VI. A. 5.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edward and Jane Stokes, of Collets Bridge, Elm, Wisbech, Cambs; husband of Rose Ellen Stokes, of Wheatley Bank, Old Walsoken, Wisbech.
  • Personal Inscription THERE IS A LINK DEATH CANNOT SEVER LOVE AND REMEMBRANCE LAST FOR EVER
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Buried or commemorated at

WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 3036
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