Richard Joseph Stocks was a distant relative on my "Culpin-side" and was born in Peterborough, then in Northamptonshire, in 1886, the second child and only son of Joseph and Betsy (nee Culpin). Joseph was a solicitor's clerk in the town and Richard himself was working as a clerk on the railway by the 1911 census.
He enlisted in the 1st/5th Border regiment and, during his service, was awarded the Military Medal. He died of wounds on 30 March1918, most likely at the 41st, 50th or 55th Casualty Clearing Stations and is buried in the Namps-au-Val cemetery.
We will remember them.
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