Service no. 25068
2nd Corporal, Royal Engineers, 9th Field Coy.
Killed in action on 17 October 1916, aged 23
CWGC: "Son of Mrs. Eliza Stokes, of 5, Lambourn Rd., Wandsworth Rd., Clapham, London."
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 George Goldsmith Stokes was living with his widowed mother, Lambeth-born Eliza Elizabeth Stokes, 54, at 801 Wandsworth Road, where they had two rooms. George, then 17, worked as a cap cutter. He was born in Battersea.