1941 Dec Quarter death registration-
Name: Stokes, Harold T.---Age: 60
District: Cheltenham (Volume & Page: 6a & 697)
On the night of Sunday, 21 Oct 1941, with wartime blackout conditions in place, an RAF bus, returning to RAF Little Rissington from Cheltenham, suddenly collided with a broken-down stationary truck on the London Road, Charlton Kings, near Cheltenham. Nine airmen on the crowded bus lost their lives when the bus caught fire and thirteen other airmen were injured.
The airmen who perished in this tragic accident were-
RAFVR Corporal Sidney Francis ANDREWS ,
RAFVR Aircraftman 2nd Class John BASELEY,
RAFVR Leading Aircraftman Michel BRADY DE MAYNARD,
RAFVR Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Leslie COPPIN,
RAFVR Aircraftman Kenneth John FULLER,
RAFVR Leading Aircraftman Sydney George Peter MEDWIN,
RAFVR Aircraftman 2nd Class Fred POULTER,
RAF Leading Aircraftman Harold Thomas STOKES and
RAFVR Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald ROSENTHALL.
Military Service:-
Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Service No: 52152
Age: 60
Service: Royal Air Force
Husband of Laura Louise Stokes of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
He is commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
1941 Dec Quarter death registration-
Name: Stokes, Harold T.---Age: 60
District: Cheltenham (Volume & Page: 6a & 697)
On the night of Sunday, 21 Oct 1941, with wartime blackout conditions in place, an RAF bus, returning to RAF Little Rissington from Cheltenham, suddenly collided with a broken-down stationary truck on the London Road, Charlton Kings, near Cheltenham. Nine airmen on the crowded bus lost their lives when the bus caught fire and thirteen other airmen were injured.
The airmen who perished in this tragic accident were-
RAFVR Corporal Sidney Francis ANDREWS ,
RAFVR Aircraftman 2nd Class John BASELEY,
RAFVR Leading Aircraftman Michel BRADY DE MAYNARD,
RAFVR Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Leslie COPPIN,
RAFVR Aircraftman Kenneth John FULLER,
RAFVR Leading Aircraftman Sydney George Peter MEDWIN,
RAFVR Aircraftman 2nd Class Fred POULTER,
RAF Leading Aircraftman Harold Thomas STOKES and
RAFVR Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald ROSENTHALL.
Military Service:-
Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Service No: 52152
Age: 60
Service: Royal Air Force
Husband of Laura Louise Stokes of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
He is commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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