death_place death_date birth_place nationality birth_date article_title name occupation
south kensington , london , england 7 december 1948 mussoorie , north-western provinces , india united kingdom 27 october 1875 claude stokes
 claude bayfield stokes indian army officer and diplomat
claude stokes

colonel claude bayfield stokes -lrb- 27 october 1875 -- 7 december 1948 -rrb- was an indian army officer and diplomat .
he served in india and was an intelligence officer with dunsterforce during the first world war .
stokes served with the 3rd skinner 's horse , a unit of the indian army .
stokes was appointed military attaché to tehran from 1907-1911 .
during this period he supplied edward granville browne with sensitive intelligence .
in 1908 he saved the life of ali-akbar dehkhoda , the iranian linguist and hassan taqizadeh -lrb- a subsequent president of iran -rrb- , when he allowed him to take refuge in the british legation compound .
he commanded the first detachment of the british army to go to baku arriving on 4 august 1918 .
he was appointed british high commissioner in transcaucasia from 1920 to 1921 .
from 1931-1940 he was british vice consul in nice , france .
