Notes
All additional information and this short biography are supplied thanks to the research of the Blackpool Grammar School Old Boys: 'He is listed as “K.G. FOULKES” by the War Graves Commission. He was the son of Thomas Gordon and Edith Diana Foulkes (?), and the step-son of James Kildare Ferris of Sandgate, Layton. He attended Roseacre Primary School and was at Blackpool Grammar School from 1932 until 1938. After leaving school he trained at the Wireless School in Preston, and was First Radio Officer on the MV Henry Stanley (of Liverpool) when it was sunk of the Azores by a U-boat en route from Singapore to the UK. He died on Monday 7th December 1942 aged 21, and is listed on the Tower Hill Memorial in London.'