Military Service

Date from 24 November 1915 to 1 April 1918
Description Royal Naval Air Service - No F9398

Source References

  1. 1939 Register
      • Page: ORQE/193
  2. Ancestry.com: Royal Air Force Airmen Records, 1918-1940
      • Date: 24 November 1915
      • Page: John Stokes
  3. Ancestry.com: Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services, 1848-1939
      • Page: John Stokes
  4. Nottingham Evening Post
      • Date: 29 September 1927
      • Page: Page 7
      • Citation:

        POPULAR OFFICER RESIGNS.

        CHIEF INSPECTOR STOKES LEAVING NOTTM. FIRE BRIGADE

        His many friends in the city will learn with regret that Chief Inspector John Stokes, second officer of the Nottingham Fire Brigade, is resigning his position.

        The resignation, which takes effect to-morrow, has been dictated by health reasons, and was tendered to the Watch Committee at their meeting yesterday.

        Inspector Stokes, who is a son of a former superintendend of the Wolverhampton Fire Brigade, served in the Navy as a petty officer during the war and from August 1921 was with the Dudley Fire Brigade and Police Force. He came to Nottingham in June, 1924.

        It will be recalled that in December last, while engaged at a cellar fire, he was badly gassed. Haemorrhage set in, and an operation was subsequently found necessary.

  5. Document copy
      • Date: 19 July 1940
      • Page: John Stokes - work record