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VC1314    James Stokes

Name   James Stokes    No.      POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   1314   Awards   VC    

Regiment   King's Shropshire Light Infantry, 2nd Battalion

Later    Light Infantry    

Now   3rd and 5th Battlions, The Rifles

Rank VC Won   Private

Rank End Of Career   Private

Place Of Birth   Hutchesontown, Strathclyde, Scotland

Place Of Death   Kervenheim, Germany

Buried/Location Ashes    Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, 3 miles south-west of Kleve, 8 miles east of Dutch border, Germany

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)    Plot/Grave no.   Plot 62, Row E, Grave 14

Gazetted    17 April 1945

VC Presented   1945 at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his son, James jnr

Memorials

P  Headstone, Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, 3 miles south-west of Kleve, 8 miles east of Dutch border, Germany

Bronze Rose Monument, East Clyde Street Memorial Garden, Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland

By The Way…

A bare-knuckle fighter who sparred with boxing legend Benny Lynch in the Gorbals, Glasgow, after being convicted for a bar-room brawl that left a man in a wheelchair, he was offered hard labour or the chance to join the Army

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BORN    6 February 1915

DIED   1 March 1945   AGE    30

VC Won  1 March 1945  AGE   30

Place VC Won   Kervenheim, Germany

War/Campaign   Second World War