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	Colonel '''Claude Bayfield Stokes''' {{Post-nominals\|size=100%\|\|CIE\|DSO\|OBE}} (27 October 1875 – 7 December 1948) was an [[British Indian Army\|Indian Army]] officer and diplomat.<ref>{{citation \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lRutfJcvOEgC&pg=PA315 \|page=315 \|title=The Correspondence of G. E. Morrison 1912–1920 \|volume=2\|author=Hui-Min Lo \|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] \|year=1978 \|isbn=9780521215619}}</ref><ref>Biography, ''[[Who's Who]]''</ref> He served in India and was an intelligence officer with [[Dunsterforce]] during the [[First World War]].		Colonel '''Claude Bayfield Stokes''' {{Post-nominals\|size=100%\|\|CIE\|DSO\|OBE}} (27 October 1875 – 7 December 1948) was an [[British Indian Army\|Indian Army]] officer and diplomat.<ref>{{citation \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lRutfJcvOEgC&pg=PA315 \|page=315 \|title=The Correspondence of G. E. Morrison 1912–1920 \|volume=2\|author=Hui-Min Lo \|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] \|year=1978 \|isbn=9780521215619}}</ref><ref>Biography, ''[[Who's Who]]''</ref> He served in India and was an intelligence officer with [[Dunsterforce]] during the [[First World War]].

	Stokes was educated at [[St John's School, Leatherhead]] and [[Royal Military Academy Sandhurst\|Sandhurst]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com\|title=Who's Who\|publisher=}}</ref> He was commissioned into the [[East Kent Regiment]] on 28 September 1895 and served on the North West Frontier 1897–98.<ref name="auto">January 1908 Indian Army List</ref> He transferred to the Indian Army 7 October 1897 and in July 1900 he joined the [[3rd Skinner's Horse]], a unit of the [[Indian Army]].<ref name = WFA>{{cite web\|title=Dunsterforce – part 1\|url=http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/great-war-on-land/other-war-theatres/3305-dunsterforce-part-1.html\|accessdate=8 October ~~2022~~}}</ref><ref name="auto"/>		Stokes was educated at [[St John's School, Leatherhead]] and [[Royal Military Academy Sandhurst\|Sandhurst]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com\|title=Who's Who\|publisher=}}</ref> He was commissioned into the [[East Kent Regiment]] on 28 September 1895 and served on the North West Frontier 1897–98.<ref name="auto">January 1908 Indian Army List</ref> He transferred to the Indian Army 7 October 1897 and in July 1900 he joined the [[3rd Skinner's Horse]], a unit of the [[Indian Army]].<ref name = WFA>{{cite web\|title=Dunsterforce – part 1\|url=http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/great-war-on-land/other-war-theatres/3305-dunsterforce-part-1.html\|accessdate=8 October 2013}}</ref><ref name="auto"/>

	Stokes was appointed [[military attaché]] to [[Tehran]] from 1907–1911. During this period he supplied [[Edward Granville Browne]] with sensitive intelligence.<ref>{{Citation		Stokes was appointed [[military attaché]] to [[Tehran]] from 1907–1911. During this period he supplied [[Edward Granville Browne]] with sensitive intelligence.<ref>{{Citation

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{{distinguish|Claud Stokes}}
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|birth_date = {{Birth date|1875|10|27|df=yes}}
|birth_place = [[Mussoorie]], [[North-Western Provinces]], India
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1948|12|7|1875|10|27|df=yes}}
|death_place = South Kensington, London, England
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|occupation = Indian Army Officer and Diplomat
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Colonel '''Claude Bayfield Stokes''' {{Post-nominals|size=100%||CIE|DSO|OBE}} (27 October 1875 – 7 December 1948) was an [[British Indian Army|Indian Army]] officer and diplomat.<ref>{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lRutfJcvOEgC&pg=PA315 |page=315 |title=The Correspondence of G. E. Morrison 1912–1920 |volume=2|author=Hui-Min Lo |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=1978 |isbn=9780521215619}}</ref><ref>Biography, ''[[Who's Who]]''</ref> He served in India and was an intelligence officer with [[Dunsterforce]] during the [[First World War]].

Stokes was educated at [[St John's School, Leatherhead]] and [[Royal Military Academy Sandhurst|Sandhurst]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com|title=Who's Who|publisher=}}</ref> He was commissioned into the [[East Kent Regiment]] on 28 September 1895 and served on the North West Frontier 1897–98.<ref name="auto">January 1908 Indian Army List</ref> He transferred to the Indian Army 7 October 1897 and in July 1900 he joined the [[3rd Skinner's Horse]], a unit of the [[Indian Army]].<ref name = WFA>{{cite web|title=Dunsterforce – part 1|url=http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/great-war-on-land/other-war-theatres/3305-dunsterforce-part-1.html|accessdate=8 October 2022}}</ref><ref name="auto"/>

Stokes was appointed [[military attaché]] to [[Tehran]] from 1907–1911. During this period he supplied [[Edward Granville Browne]] with sensitive intelligence.<ref>{{Citation
|publisher = Syracuse University Press
|isbn = 9780815630425
|ol = 8049521M
|title = Britain And the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906–1911
|author = Mansour Bonakdarian
|date = 30 June 2006
|id = 0815630425
|oclc= 63171146
}}</ref> In 1908 he saved the life of [[Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda]], the Iranian linguist and [[Hassan Taqizadeh]] (a subsequent President of Iran), when he allowed him to take refuge in the British Legation compound.<ref>{{Citation
|publisher = Routledge
|location = Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon
|author = Homa Katouzian
|title = Iran
|date = 2012
|oclc = 830085718
|ol = 25367437M
}}</ref>
He commanded the first detachment of the [[British Army]] to go to [[Baku]] arriving on 4 August 1918.<ref name = WFA />

He was appointed [[British High Commissioner]] in [[Transcaucasia]], based in the [[Democratic Republic of Georgia|Georgian]] capital of [[Tiflis]], from 1920 to 1921.<ref name =Halpern>{{cite book|last=Halpern|first=Paul|title=The Mediterranean Fleet, 1919–1929|year=2011|publisher=Ashgate Publishing}}</ref>

He retired from the Indian Army 1 October 1922.<ref>Indian Army List 1941 Supplement</ref>

From 1931–1940 he was British [[Vice consul]] in [[Nice]], [[France]].<ref name =Halpern />

==Family life==
Stokes had married Olga Postovsky in Turkey in the early 1920s and they had a daughter. Stokes died at 22B Roland Gardens in South Kensington London on 7 December 1948.<ref>"Deaths." Times [London, England] 8 Dec. 1948: 1. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 9 Oct. 2013.</ref>

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