Second Lieutenant Richard John Stevenson
3rd Battalion - Attached 1st Battalion.
Hampshire Regiment
10/05/1918
Eldest son of Richard John and Lizzie Rosla Stevenson (née
Beck), of the Public Works Department, Hong Kong. Resident at Gorey, Jersey.
Died of wounds, aged 23 years.
Commemorated on family memorial in
St Saviours Churchyard,
on Grouville Parish Memorial
and on memorial window
in Gouray Church
Notice of Death appears in Jersey Evening
Post of Monday 27 May 1918
NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post of
Monday 27 May 1918
Roll of Honour. We regret to announce
the death which took place recently from wounds received
in action of 2nd Lieutenant R J Stevenson of the Hampshire
Regiment. This gallant officer was 23 and well known
in the Island, his parents, who now reside in Hong Kong,
formerly lived in Gorey Village. His grandmother is
Mrs M A Beck of Gorey Village and his two brothers are
now being educated at Victoria College. We tender the
bereaved our sincere sympathy.
