Person    | Male  Born 1897  Died 20/9/1917

Harold Charles Nokes

War dead, WW1 i

Commemorated on a memorial as having died in WW1.

Harold Charles Nokes

Rifleman Harold Charles Nokes.

His name is shown spelt incorrectly as Harold Noakes on the Hoxton War Memorial.

He was born in 1897, the younger child of Edward Charles Nokes (1865-1948) and Amelia Nokes née Hill (1866-1967). His birth was registered in the 4th quarter of 1897 in the Shoreditch registration district and his father was a mouldings maker sawyer. 

In the 1911 census he is recorded as a school boy residing at 70 Herbert Street, Hoxton, with his parents and brother Ernest Edward Nokes (1890-1945). 

He enlisted at Whitehall in the King's Royal Rifle Corps, service number R/38740, and was attached to their 10th (Service) Battalion when he was killed in action, aged 19 years, on 20 September 1917. As he has no known grave he is commemorated on Panel 118 of the Tyne Cot Memorial in the Tyne Cot Cemetery, Vijfwegestraat, 8980 Zonnebeke, Belgium.

On 31 January 1918 his father was sent his army effects totalling £2-3s-10d and on 17 October 1919 his £3-0s-0d war gratuity. He was posthumously awarded the British War Medal 1914-1918 and the Victory Medal.

Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.

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