Lionel Alfred Gilbert Vokes
Memorial: South Gloucestershire war dead not on a local memorial
Regiment: Sherwood Foresters
Medals: 1939–45 Star, War Medal 1939–1945
Rank and number: Private 4621750
Parents: Gilbert Langley Howard and Nellie Elizabeth Vokes
Home address: 9 Dalkeith Avenue Kingswood
Pre-war occupation: Boot and shoe repairer
Date of birth: 30/03/1916
Place of birth: Bristol
Date of death: 31/01/1941
Buried/Commemorated at: No known burial site. Commemorated at Khartoum Memorial, Sudan. Not commemorated on a local memorial.
Age: 24
Further information:
Lionel was born in Bristol and at the time of his birth, his father was on active service during WW1. Lionel's father worked in peacetime as an engineer fitter and Lionel had a younger sister Joan.
Lionel would have served with his battalion (the 1st Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, Notts and Derby Regiment)from the outbreak of war and probably lost his life in the Battle of Agordat (26–31 January 1941) during the British invasion of Eritrea. His body was never found and the Khartoum Memorial where he is remembered, commemorates 590 soldiers of the East African campaign of 1940-1941 who died in the Sudan, or in the advance into Eritrea and Northern Ethiopia, and who have no known grave.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/