Private William Stokes

Army Number: 6981

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Son of William and Elizabeth Stokes, of 185, Coventry Road, Bulwell, Nottinghamshire. He went to France on 4th November 1914 and was killed in action, on 12th March 1915 in the German counter-attack and then the British counter-attack during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, France.

Commemorated: Le Touret Memorial, France. Panel 26 and 27.