Name
Douglas David Stevens
4 December 1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/10/1916
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
5450
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LONSDALE CEMETERY, AUTHUILLE
IX. D. 3.
France
Headstone Inscription
PRAY FOR HIS SOUL R.I.P.
UK & Other Memorials
Radlett Village Memorial, Christ Church & St Johns Memorial, Radlett, Not on the South Mimms memorials
Pre War
Douglas David Stevens was born on 4 December 1890 in Finchley, London, the son of Walter and Mary Stevens, and baptised on 24 January 1891 at All Saints, Highgate, Haringey.
On the 1891 Census the family were living at Landsdown Villa, Hornsey where his father worked as an Insurance Clerk. By 1901 they had moved to Aldenham Road, Aldenham, Herts and in 1911 were living at Fair Oak, Radlett, Herts at which time Douglas was working as a Manufacturers Clerk.
Wartime Service
Douglas enlisted in Hertford on 7 August 1915 and served with the 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment.
He was posted on 13 March 1916 and was probably one of the draft of 50 men who joined the Battalion in the field near Sercus, France the following day. He was killed in action on 14 October 1916, aged 25, during the Battle of the Ancre Heights (part of the Battle of the Somme) and is buried in Lonsdale Cemetery, Authuille, France.
Additional Information
His mother, Mrs M K Stevens, Pathway Cottage, Radlett, Herts, ordered his headstone inscription: "PRAY FOR HIS SOUL R.I.P."
His mother Mary received a war gratuity of £4 and pay owing of £6 3s 3d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
