A family find

[Roger H]

I celebrated my mother's 90th Birthday this weekend and as many family members as possible attended which include my dad's brother. On arrival he produced a small bible and handed it to me saying that he knew I was interested in WW1 and would I be interested in having it. Would I???!! It belonged to my dad's (and his bother's) uncle it is inscribed:

20851 Serjeant Jas Vokes, 1/5 Yorks Regiment, C Coy, II Platoon, B.E.F France and is dated 22/3/17.

Sadly he didn't make it. RIP James (Jas) http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=850492

Another research project for me and I'm looking forward to finding out more.

Roger

[Pighills]

You lucky man!

Mind, we can't complain, we still have James' granddad's medals and tags, so we are lucky too.

[RaySearching]

Hi Roger

Your relatives James Vokes is included on Bill Danbys Website on the list of the brave soldiers

who were killed in action ,with the 5th Yorks , during the German Offensive the Battle of St Quentin

Here is the Link to the page on Bills website the 5th Yorks which can be found HERE

Bill will be only to pleased to add any further info on James you have , if you would like

it to be added to his website

regards Ray

[Roger H]

Ray

Fantastic - many thanks for taking the time to look this up for me. As soon as I glean more information, I will certainly contact Bill.

Roger

[Roger H]

Ray

I contacted Bill as you suggested and he has kindly added some further information about James Vokes and included a scan of the bible entry. This can be seen via the link at your post number 3. Thanks for pointing me in his direction.

Roger