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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 | 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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Claude Bayfield Stokes | |
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| Born | 27 October 1875 Mussoorie, North-Western Provinces, India |
| Died | 7 December 1948 (aged 73) South Kensington, London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Indian Army Officer and Diplomat |
Colonel Claude Bayfield Stokes CIE DSO OBE (27 October 1875 – 7 December 1948) was an Indian Army officer and diplomat.[1][2] 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 Sandhurst.[3] He was commissioned into the East Kent Regiment on 28 September 1895 and served on the North West Frontier 1897–98.[4] 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.[5][4]
Stokes was appointed military attaché to Tehran from 1907–1911. During this period he supplied Edward Granville Browne with sensitive intelligence.[6] 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.[7] He commanded the first detachment of the British Army to go to Baku arriving on 4 August 1918.[5]
He was appointed British High Commissioner in Transcaucasia, based in the Georgian capital of Tiflis, from 1920 to 1921.[8]
He retired from the Indian Army 1 October 1922.[9]
From 1931–1940 he was British Vice consul in Nice, France.[8]
Family life[edit | edit source]
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.[10]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Hui-Min Lo (1978), The Correspondence of G. E. Morrison 1912–1920, vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, p. 315, ISBN 9780521215619
- ↑ Biography, Who's Who
- ↑ "Who's Who".
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 January 1908 Indian Army List
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Dunsterforce – part 1". Retrieved 8 October 2013.
- ↑ Mansour Bonakdarian (30 June 2006), Britain And the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906–1911, Syracuse University Press, ISBN 9780815630425, OCLC 63171146, OL 8049521M, 0815630425
- ↑ Homa Katouzian (2012), Iran, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, OCLC 830085718, OL 25367437M
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Halpern, Paul (2011). The Mediterranean Fleet, 1919–1929. Ashgate Publishing.
- ↑ Indian Army List 1941 Supplement
- ↑ "Deaths." Times [London, England] 8 Dec. 1948: 1. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 9 Oct. 2013.