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1st Battalion, The Light Infantry
Pte Thomas Albert Stoker, 18, single, from Wakefield, Yorkshire
"He died in hospital after being shot by a colleague in the Ardoyne, two months earlier on July 29th.
It emerged at his inquest that Pte Stoker had been in a covert OP in an un-occupied house in Berwick Road. A soldier in an adjacent room discharged a round from his weapon while fixing a telescopic sight to it.
The round went through a wall and struck the Pte in the back.
Pte Stoker had been in N. Ireland for two days when he was shot."
(taken from 'Lost Lives')
Rest easy, son.
Pte Thomas Albert Stoker, 18, single, from Wakefield, Yorkshire
"He died in hospital after being shot by a colleague in the Ardoyne, two months earlier on July 29th.
It emerged at his inquest that Pte Stoker had been in a covert OP in an un-occupied house in Berwick Road. A soldier in an adjacent room discharged a round from his weapon while fixing a telescopic sight to it.
The round went through a wall and struck the Pte in the back.
Pte Stoker had been in N. Ireland for two days when he was shot."
(taken from 'Lost Lives')
Rest easy, son.
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