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Gunner HORACE WILLIAM FOKES

Service Number: 1070794
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

58 Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 22 May 1940

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OOIKE CHURCHYARD

Grave 6.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James William and Lucy Ann Fokes; husband of Florence May Fokes, of Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
  • Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DEAR HUSBAND HORACE WILLIAM "ONLY MEMORIES ARE LEFT"
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Buried or commemorated at

OOIKE CHURCHYARD
Oost-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 5
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