Robert, who was acting as Liaison Officer between the Army and the RAF died at the age of 21 in the Sicily campaign when the aircraft in which he was flying crashed on Thursday 5^th August 1943, but not as a result of enemy action. He is buried in Syracuse War Cemetery, Sicily.

The 9th Battalion of his regiment, from whom he was detached, remained in the United Kingdom throughout the war as a training battalion to supply drafts of replacements for battalions of other regiments overseas.

Son of Reginald Noakes & Agnes Gray Noakes of Clungunford, Shropshire.

A copy of this story may be downloaded here.

See also the Commonwealth War Graves Commission permanent digital memorial, ‘Evermore: Stories of the fallen’ relating to:-  Captain Robert Reginald NOAKES