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Military service
Age:
36
Rank:
Lieutenant Colonel
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
British Columbia Dragoons, R.C.A.C.
Division:
9th Armd. Regt.
Birth:
September 29, 1907
Columbo, Sri Lanka
Death:
August 31, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. C. 1.
Additional information
Son of Frederick Patrick and Elizebeth Vokes; husband of Kathleen Edith Vokes, of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Brother of Major General Christopher Vokes.
Frederick Vokes took a leading part in the assault on Dieppe in August 1942.
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Mentioned in Despatches
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Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Alexander Vokes
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Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Alexander Vokes
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Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Alexander Vokes
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Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Alexander Vokes
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Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Alexander Vokes
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 469 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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