Charles Hartley Stokes

   Cause of his death was gangrene after fracturing leg in a fall at Moora.

  Noted events in his life were:

• source. & Charles Poynton who notes:
Charles was an engineer who died after an industrial accident in 1927, while Gladys died in 1932 of an infection, leaving Valerie, Irwin and three other children as orphans. The children were adopted by members of their mother's extended family. In my father's case, he was adopted by his grandfather's brother, while Valerie was taken into care by her Aunt Ida. In Valerie's case, no formal adoption was ever undertaken and until her marriage to Frank Lynn, her legal surname was Stokes, not Paton.

• Occupation. Mining Surveyor

Charles married Private