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Henry Fokes

Age: 53

Sex: male

Date: 18 Oct 1915

Place: Fort Clarence, Rochester

Henry Fokes was found dead wearing only his shirt on a staircase.

He was found early in the morning, 4.50am, by a corporal of the guard on the landing between two flights of stairs with a large wound to his stomach, nine broken ribs, a fractured pelvis and a wound on his forehead. The stairs had led up to his bedroom in the fort. The stomach wound had been about 25 inches long and had extended round his body from front to back.


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see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

see Western Mail - Monday 18 October 1915

see Derby Daily Telegraph - Monday 18 October 1915

see Dundee Courier - Monday 18 October 1915

see Wells Journal - Friday 22 October 1915

see Unsolved 1915