Name
Sidney Stevens
1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/09/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
1299
Hertfordshire Yeomanry
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LEAVESDEN (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
None shown on records - Private family grave
UK & Other Memorials
All Saints Church Memorial, Leavesden, Hertfordshire Yeomanry Memorial, St Albans Cathedral, Not on the Shenley memorials, Not on the Watford memorials, Not on the Ridge memorials
Pre War
Sidney Stevens was born in Ridge, Herts in 1890, the son of George and Clara Stevens (nee North) and one of three children. He was baptised on 16 March 1891 at St Margaret’s, Ridge. His parents had married on 26 December 1887 at All Saints Church, Leavesden, Herts.
On the 1891 Census the family were living at Grays Cottage, South Mimms when Sidney was aged 7 months and his father was working as a carman. By 1901 They had moved to Leggatts Farm, Watford by 1901 at which time his father was working as a farmer and Sidney had been joined by two sisters, Dorothy and Mabel.
His mother died on 21 March 1930 in Leavesden aged 67. His father remarried in 1931 in Battersea, London, to Minnie Maria Fellows. Both his father and stepmother died in 1940 in Leavesden.
Wartime Service
Sidney's service number of 1299 suggests he was already a serving member of the Hertfordshire Yeomanry, (a territorial army unit) having enlisted in late 1910 or early 1911. As such he would have been called up at the outbreak of war and served as Lance Corporal in Egypt from 5 November 1914, followed by Gallipoli in August 1915.
He was wounded in action, repatriated to England and died in Bristol Hospital of his wounds on 20 September 1915. He is buried in Leavesden All Saints Churchyard, Herts.
Biography
Sidney Stevens was born in
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £4 and pay owing of £12 12s 1d.
N.B. on some records Sidney's name is spelled as Sydney.
There are articles about Sidney in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 25 September 1915 and in the Watford Illustrated dated 2 October 1915; plus In Memoriams in the Observer dated 23 September 1916, 21 September 1918 and 20 September 1919.
Sidney's headstone (not CWGC) bears the inscription: SIDNEY STEVENS, 1890 - 1915
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Gareth Hughes, Jonty Wild
