Lives of the First World War

Second Lieutenant Oliver Chetwode Stokes, Royal Munster Fusiliers, was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Stokes, of 44, Waterloo Road, Bedford, and grandson of the late MajorC.eneral O. R. Stokes, R.A., of Lassinagh, Tralee, and, on his mother's side, of the late Crewe Townsend, Esq., of Firmount, Co. Cork. He was educated at Hydneye House School, Willingdon, Eastbourne, and Bedford School, from which he passed into Sandhurst in 1915. In April, 1916, he received his commission in the Royal Munster Fusiliers, and went to the front in the following September. He was wounded a few days later, and on recovery rejoined his battalion. He was killed on the night of March 4th.—Irish Life.

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