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William David Stokes

Private

Service No. 16/1407

Age 24

Died on 23 July 1916

Royal Warwickshire Regiment

THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

Somme, France

Husband of Matilda Chapman (formerly Stokes), of 110A, William St., Ladywood, Birmingham.

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Henry Harrison

William, O valiant heart, who to your glory came through dust and ashes….your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

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William, I am not aware of the precise circumstances of your death, nor what caused it, although so many of our comrades must have been blow...

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