Name
George Steventon
1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/04/1918
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
54525
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
1st/7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 42 to 47 and 162.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials
Pre War
George Steventon was born in 1896 in Fulham the youngest child of Henry and Emma Steventon. In 1901 the family were living at Ancil Street, Fulham and his father was a Clay Potter Moulder. Although they still lived in Fulham on the 1911 Census, his father had died in 1905 and he was living with his widowed mother and three siblings at 44 Rosaline Road. George was working as a Clerk in a Bakery.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Chelsea and served with the 1st/7th Btn of the West Yorkshire Regiment which was a Territorial Force. He died during the German spring offensive of 1918. Death was presumed on 16 April 1918 but his body was not recovered for burial.
N.B. Some records show the date of death/presumed missing as 10 April 1918.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £17 10s.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
