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EDWARD STEPHENSON
BORN HULL 1895. SON OF EDWARD STEPHENSON (1865-1939) & GILLIS STUART (1863-1907). HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS.
HE WAS AN APPRENTIC SLATER LIVING WITH HIS AUNTIE, MARY CHAPMAN, AT 8, CONVENT LANE, LINNAEUS STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS), AND 4, LILY AVENUE, GRANGE STREET, HULL (MARRIAGE ADDRESS).
HIS ARMY RECORDS DESCRIBE HIM AS 5 FOOT, 6.5 INCHES TALL, 33.5 INCH CHEST, NORMAL VISION.
HE MARRIED AT ST JOHNS CHURCH, NEWLAND, HULL, ON 31 OCT 1915. HIS WIFE EDITH GERTRUDE EVERINGHAM, LIVED AT 8, CONVENT LANE, HULL AND 1, CARLTON VILLAS, GREEK STREET, HAWTHORNE AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION AND CWGC ADDRESS).
HE ENLISTED IN HULL, AGED 19, ON 3 FEB 1913. SERVED WITH THE 3RD NOTHUMBRIAN BRIGADE, RAMC. POSTED TO FRANCE ON 19 APRIL 1915. PROMOTED TO STAFF SERGEANT ON 20 NOV 1915. RETURNED TO ENGLAND ON 16 OCT 1916. DISCHARGED WITH TURBERCULOSIS AND EXPOSURE AND NO LONGER PHYSICALLY FIT, ON 17 NOV 1916. HE HAD SERVED IN THE ARMY FOR 3 YEARS AND 289 DAYS. HE DIED ON 29/10/1917, AGED 24.
BURIED IN HULL WESTERN CEMETERY. HIS WIDOW RE-MARRIED AND BECAMES MRS DAVY.
HIS BROTHER ROBERT SERVED IN THE ROYAL MARINE & ROYAL FUSILIERS. HIS BROTHER, ALAN, SERVED IN THE RAF DURING WW1.
Kingston upon Hull HU5 4AY
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