Lance Corporal 39748 Richard Edward Pawson STEVENS
"B" Company, 12th Battalion, Manchester Regiment
Killed in Action, Thursday 5th July 1917, France, Age 31
Home address:
127 Mottram Road, Hyde, Cheshire
Born:
1886, Middlesex, London
Parents:
Grace Toynbee Stevens and John Edward Stevens
127 Mottram Road, Hyde, Cheshire
Marital Status:
Single
Occupation:
Secretary
Enlisted:
Manchester, Lancashire
Remembered:
Mindel Trench British Cemetery, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France, row D, grave 41.
Link to Hyde:
Lived in Hyde
From the Hyde Reporter, 14th July 1917, page 3, column 6:
Lance Corporal Stevens was accompanying a convoy which was conveying rations to the front trench, when he was hit by a piece of shell and killed instantly.