Position abolished due to the occupation of Georgia
Colonel Claude Bayfield StokesCIE DSO OBE (27 October 1875 – 7 December 1948) was an Indian Army officer and diplomat.[1][2] He served in India and was an intelligence officer with Dunsterforce during the First World War.
Stokes was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead and Sandhurst.[3] He was commissioned into the East Kent Regiment on 28 September 1895 and served on the North West Frontier 1897–98.[4] He transferred to the Indian Army 7 October 1897 and in July 1900 he joined the 3rd Skinner's Horse, a unit of the Indian Army.[5][4]
Stokes was appointed military attaché to Tehran from 1907–1911. During this period he supplied Edward Granville Browne with sensitive intelligence.[6] In 1908 he saved the life of Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, the Iranian linguist and Hassan Taqizadeh (a subsequent President of Iran), when he allowed him to take refuge in the British Legation compound.[7]
He commanded the first detachment of the British Army to go to Baku arriving on 4 August 1918.[5]
He was appointed British High Commissioner in Transcaucasia, based in the Georgian capital of Tiflis, from 1920 to 1921.[8]
He retired from the Indian Army 1 October 1922.[9]
From 1931–1940 he was British Vice consul in Nice, France.[8]
^Hui-Min Lo (1978), The Correspondence of G. E. Morrison 1912–1920, vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, p. 315, ISBN 9780521215619
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^ abJanuary 1908 Indian Army List
^ ab"Dunsterforce – part 1". Retrieved 8 October 2013.
^Mansour Bonakdarian (30 June 2006), Britain And the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906–1911, Syracuse University Press, ISBN 9780815630425, OCLC 63171146, OL 8049521M, 0815630425
^Homa Katouzian (2012), Iran, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, OCLC 830085718, OL 25367437M
^ abHalpern, Paul (2011). The Mediterranean Fleet, 1919–1929. Ashgate Publishing.
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