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The following obituary for John Edward Stokes appeared in the Times newspaper.
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| 23 January 1914 | REAR-ADMIRAL J.E. STOKES. The death occurred on Tuesday at his residence, 31, Tisbury-road, Hove, of Rear-Admiral John Edward Stokes, who saw service in the war with Russia and in China, aged 76.Rear-Admiral Stokes was the last surviving son of the late Mr. Robert Day Stokes, of County Kerry, and uncle of Vice-Admiral R.H.S. Stokes, who until recently was Admiral Superintendent of Devonport Dockyard. He entered the Navy in 1851 and retired with the rank of captain in 1893, being promoted to rear-admiral three years later. As a midshipman he was present at the bombardment of Bomarsund, and in February, 1855, was in the Leopard at the destruction of military stores and the capture of gens near Anapa. In the following month he took part in the attack on Soujah Kale, and subsequently was present at the taking of Kertch, Kinburn, and at the night attack on and fall of Sevastopol; he was awarded the Crimean and Turkish medals. In 1857 he went to China, where he rendered considerable service in the destruction of Chinese war boats. He landed with a naval brigade at the capture of Canton in December, 1857, and afterwards was employed in the suppression of the slave trade on the West Coast of Africa. Later he returned to China when in command of the Opossum, and proceeded on a special mission up the Upper Yang-tsze 375 miles above the treaty port of Hankow. He received the captain’s Good Service Pension and for his war services had four medals and three clasps. He married in 1870 his cousin Frances (who died in 1894) daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Day Stokes. The funeral service will be held at Hove Parish Church to-morrow at 12.30 p.m. |
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