Walter Cyril STOKES

Flight Sergeant Walter Cyril STOKES No. 1315186 Royal Air Force stationed at RAF South Cerney.
Died 28 July 1952 aged 30 as the result of a mid air collision near Calmsden Gloucestershire during an instrument training sortie. He was second man in a Harvard T.FS822 flown by Flt Lt Alan Leonard Jose MAY when he collided with the Harvard T.2B KF948 flown by Flt MAY both died. He was born 28 January 1922 at Gloucester to Albert Edward and Sarah Louisa Stokes nee Barton.
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Stationed at RAF South Cerney, Gloucestershire died 28 July 1952 at Ampney Down Farm, Ampney Crucis, Gloucestershire. His effects went to Violet Marie Stokes nee Anderson his widow and Albert Edward Stokes, painter.

At rest at South Cerney All Hallows Churchyard, Gloucestershire.