Notes
Peter Astley Stockton was born in Lincolnshire on 23 November 1920, the younger son of the Reverend Samuel Stockton and Kathleen (née Summers). He was educated at Shrewsbury School from 1932 to 1939, and entered Worcester College, Oxford on 13 October 1939 to read law. He left Oxford to join the army without taking a degree.
Peter Stockton was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the King’s Regiment (Liverpool) on 12 April 1941 and was later attached to the 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry where he commanded No. 4 Platoon in A Company.
Lieutenant Peter Stockton was killed in action on 23 April 1944, leading his Platoon in a counterattack on a Japanese trench during the Battle of Kohima in India. He was 23 years old.
Peter Stockton is commemorated on the Rangoon Memorial, and on the war memorials at Shrewsbury School and Worcester College, Oxford.