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L/Cpl. George Stokoe
British Army 5th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.27th May 1918)
George Stokoe died aged 23, he was born and lived in Jarrow, son of Elizabeth Dorothy Stokoe (nee Smith) of 80 Commercial Road Jarrow and the late John Stokoe. In the 1911 Census, he is recorded as George Ed Smith Stokoe, age 14, working in a Grocer's Shop, lived with his Widowed Mother Elizabeth Dorothy Stokoe & his 2 brothers at 13, Frankling Street, Jarrow. He enlisted in Walker.
George is remembered on the Soissons Memorial. He is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph Jarrow and on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
