Notes
The Roll lists his address as 20 Princes Road, Old Fletton.
(CWGC records that Serjeant R J Stocks M.M., regimental number 241986, died on 30/3/1918 serving in 1st/5th Battalion of the Border Regiment, and is buried in grave I.B.23 at Namps au Val British Cemetery in France. They record him as the son of Mr J Stocks of 90 Eastfield Road, Peterborough. Richard is also commemorated on his parents' headstone in Broadway Cemetery- see WMR ref 70059. The inscription records him as the son of Betsy Ann and Joseph Stocks, and that he was aged 32 when he was killed in action. The Medal Rolls record that Richard first served as a Private in the Essex Regiment under regimental number 6047, before transferring to the 3/5th Battalion Border Regiment under regimental number 5551; he later transferred to the 1st/5th Battalion of the Border Regiment as a Sergeant (regimental number 241986). The award of his Military Medal was posthumously published in the London Gazette Supplement 10797 dated 16/7/1918; Page 8328).