Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Acting Corporal E. H. Stokes, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action on the Somme on 30 July 1916

1914 Star (8207 L.Cpl. J. A. [sic] Stokes. Oxf; & Bucks: L.I.); British War Medal 1914-20 (8207 A. Cpl. E. H. Stokes. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) some contact marks, very fine (2) £70-£90

Ernest Harry Stokes was born in Buckinghamshire and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War in the Western Front from 22 September 1914 (also entitled to a clasp to his 1914 Star), and was killed in action on the Somme on 30 July 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.