13th BATTALION AIF
Driver: 674 Albert Harold STOKES.
Born: 30th May 1889. Lambton, New South Wales, Australia. Birth Cert:31755/1889.
Married 1: 1911. Kurri Kurri, New South Wales, Australia. Marriage Cert:5853/1911.
Wife 1: Rose Priscilla Stokes. nee: Dunn. (1892-1972)
Married 2: 1922. Lambton, New South Wales, Australia. Marriage Cert:14091/1922.
Wife 2: Annie Rachel Fegan Stokes. nee: Dent. (1893-1984)
Died: 22nd July 1927. Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Death Cert:12566/1927.
Father: Thomas Stokes. (1861-1927)
Mother: Mary Grierson Stokes. nee: Kerr. (1867-1944)
INFORMATION
94 years ago today, on the Sunday afternoon of the 24th July 1927 (5 funerals on this day), Driver Albert Harold Stokes, 13th Battalion (Reg No-674), miner from Northcote Street, Kurri Kurri, New South Wales and Howe Street, Lambton, N.S.W., father of one (Marjorie), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 38. ANGLICAN 2-126. 56.
Born at Lambton, New South Wales on the 30th May 1889 to Thomas and Mary Grierson Stokes of Howe Street, Lambton, New South Wales; husband of Rose Priscilla Stokes nee Dunn (married 1911, Kurri Kurri, N.S.W., died 1972) and Annie Rachel F Stokes nee Dent (married 1922, New Lambton, N.S.W., died 1984, 57 years a widow and sadly, her name has not been inscribed on the headstone), Albert enlisted September 1914 at Roseberry Park, N.S.W.
Wounded in action - 5.7.1917 (GSW right jaw), and admitted to hospital 20.12.1917 (sprained ankle, accidental dislocation of right toe), Mr Stokes returned home June 1918, and was discharged medically unfit 5th July 1918.
Mr Stokes’s name has been inscribed on the New Lambton Public School Roll of Honour and the Hamilton St. Peter's Anglican Church Honour Roll. Name not inscribed on the Kurri Kurri War Memorial.
Tragically, Mr Stokes collapsed and died at the B.H.P. Steelworks on the Friday night of the 22nd July 1927.
Sadly, the headstone inscription gives no indication that Albert served with the 1st A.I.F., so I have placed poppies at the gravesite to honour his service and sacrifice for God, King and Country.
4 brothers of Albert also served during The Great War.
Younger brother William Robert (Reg No-3248, 56th Battalion, born 1897, died 1964) also resting at the cemetery. ANGLICAN 1-83. 28.
Younger brother Archibald Allan (Reg No-2967, 4th Battalion, born 1893, died of illness (pneumonia), 20.8.1918, Port Said War Memorial Cemetery, Port Said, Suez Canal, Egypt) - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140975946, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137501416, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137500828
Gary Mitchell: July 2021.
Family Information
Albert was a married 25 year old Coal Miner from Kurri Kurri, N.S.W. upon his enlistment with the AIF. Albert divorced his first wife Rose in 1922 for "Misconduct with Mr Brown" and married Annie Rachel Fegan at New Lambton in 1922.
The Stokes Family of Howe Street, Lambton via Newcastle, New South Wales.
Military Records
Under Construction: 28/07/2021-06/08/2021.
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