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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 428

Pair: Private H. Stokes, 1/4th Battalion, Essex Regiment, who was killed in action at the Third Battle of Gaza in November 1917

British War and Victory Medals (5454 Pte. H. Stokes, Essex R.), extremely fine (2)

Henry Stokes first entered a theatre of war in 1916, or later, and was killed in action at the Third Battle of Gaza on 3 November 1917, when the battalion suffered four officers and 83 men killed, with a further seven officers and 196 men wounded. Placed under the command of 162nd Brigade for the day, the Battalion was deployed against Rafa Trench in order to stabilise the threatened line. Few casualties were sustained in the initial advance but upon being counter-attacked by one Turkish Division of 1000 men, the withdrawal must have been devastating.

Aged 39, Stokes was the son of Stephen and Lydia Stokes and the husband of Elizabeth Freeman Stokes of Reading Room Cottage, North Ockendon, Romford, Essex. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Jerusalem Memorial.


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