LOAKES, Stanley John
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Rank:
Lance Corporal
Unit / Base:
1 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Service:
Army
Number:
4038903
Died :
Wednesday, December 2, 1942
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
22
Cemetery/Memorial:
Operations:
Lance Corporal Stanley Loakes was reported wounded and missing in Tunisia December 1942, later confirmed as dying of wounds whilst a prisoner of war. Son of Henry and May Loakes; husband of Irene Loakes, of Davyhulme, Urmston, Lancashire.
Sources
CWGC
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/61.
ROH/Obituaries from his wife Irene, his mother Winnie, and other family members in the Manchester Evening News 2nd December 1944.
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