World War 1
Search the known records to date of those lost from the wider Alnwick area in World War 1
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Clement Stephenson
Forename(s):
Clement
Surname:
Stephenson
Initial(s):
C
Service Number:
16593
Rank:
Private
Regiment:
East Yorkshire Regiment, 8th (Service) Battalion
Died:
30/05/1916
Aged:
19
Buried:
Alwinton (St. Michael's) Churchyard
Service History:
Enlisted 29 September 1914 at Alnwick, Northumberland. Clement was 19½ year of age at the time of enlistment.
Died from Hodgkin's Disease at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne. N.B. 'Soldiers Died...' records the date of death as 13 May 1916.
N.B. Stephenson's service records are available via Ancestry.co.uk.
Background:
Born in 1895, at Netherton, lived at Rothbury, both in Northumberland. Youngest son of John R. Stephenson (b.1854 at Rothbury) & Isabella (née Thornton?; b.1858 at Cambo).
An unmarried Farm Labourer.
Stephenson's father died in 1906, aged 52.
Stephenson's widowed mother lived variously at Great Ryle, Scainwood & Elilaw & had five other children who lived & worked in & around Belford, Glanton & Whittingham. Stephenson was her youngest son & seven months after his death another son, George, pre-war a Shepherd, died of nephritis (inflammation of the kidneys) while on active service in France. Another son, John Robert (Stephenson), also served on the Western Front.
One of two sons lost: see, also, Rifleman George Stephenson (Regimental service #C/12324; King's Royal Rifle Corps, 21st [Service] Battalion [Yeoman Rifles]; Died 28 December 1916).
(Source: 'The Valley Remembers'; Edited by Sandy Hunter; Published by Upper Coquetdale WW1 Project; 2014)
Local Memorial:
Alnham, St. Michael's Church