Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Colonel Claude Bayfield Stokes CIE DSO OBE (27 October 1875 – 7 December 1948) 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 (a subsequent President of Iran), 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 Trans-caucasia 1920-1921From 1931-1940 he was British Vice consul in Nice, France.. }
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- Claude_Stokes abstract "Colonel Claude Bayfield Stokes CIE DSO OBE (27 October 1875 – 7 December 1948) 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 (a subsequent President of Iran), 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 Trans-caucasia 1920-1921From 1931-1940 he was British Vice consul in Nice, France.".