New York. 23rd Regiment Team Badge (W.A. Stokes)

New York. 23rd Regiment Team Badge, with top bar “Creedmoor” and bars “1885”, “1886”, “1887”, “1888”, “1889”, “1890”, “1891”, “1892”, “1893” and “1894”. Engraved on the reverse “23rd/Regt Team/W.A. Stokes/NGSNY”. Marked “Richd Oliver & Bloomfield”.

Colonel William Arthur Stokes joined the regiment as a private in 1880, was commissioned in 1890 and rose to colonel in 1904. He retired in June 1909 and was given a brevet to brigadier general. General Stokes died in June 1923.