Casualty Details

Name: OAKES, THOMAS HENRY EDMUND
Initials: T H E
Nationality: New Zealand
Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Regiment/Service: New Zealand Artillery
Unit Text: 7 Anti-Tank Regt.
Age: 46
Date of Death: 30/11/1941
Service No: 20022
Awards: M C and Bar, Mentioned in Despatches
Additional information: Son of Thomas Harry Royal Oakes and of Ada Oakes (nee Beloe), of Walberswick, Suffolk; husband of Yvonne E. Oakes, of Auckland City, New Zealand. Also served as Major, Royal Field Artillery, 1914-18.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Column 99.
Memorial: ALAMEIN MEMORIAL