Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookril following, during the gas attack by the Germans at the second Battle of Ypres, when the Canadian Engineers (who were in the 3rd Infantry Brigade, establishing contact with the Allies, at the terminus to the north-west of Ypres) were ordered forward to dig protection trenches in front of the oncoming enemy; _unm._ Buried in Vlamertinghe Cemetery. His commanding officer wrote: "He was a very keen, good soldier, of untiring effort and unfailing cheerfulness.... As popular with the men as with the officers." [Illustration: =Alan John Steuart.=] =STEVENS, ARTHUR=, Petty Officer, 2nd Class (R.F.R., B. 2087), 190224, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =STEVENS, FRED=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7115), S.S. 101839, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =STEVENS, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS=, Ch. E.R.A., 1st Class (Pensioner), 148212, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =STEVENS, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7057), S.S. 101670, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =STEVENS, LOTHIAN BASIL=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., attd. 2nd Battn. Scottish Rifles, yst. _s._ of Col. George Morton Stevens, late R.A., by his wife, Mary, dau. of Surg.-Gen. William Campbell Maclean, C.B., M.D., LL.D.; _b._ Southampton, 13 March, 1894; educ. Blundells School, Tiverton, and Balliol College, Oxford (Mathematical Scholar); where he took a first-class in moderations in mathematics, July, 1914; joined the Public Schools Battn. of the Middlesex Regt. in Sept. 1914, and obtained a commission in the 3rd South Staffordshires, 3 Oct. 1914; went to France in March, 1915; was attd. to the 2nd Scottish Rifles; was reported wounded and missing after the fighting at Fromelles, 9 May following, and is now assumed to have been killed in action that day; _unm._ The officer commanding the 2nd Scottish Rifles wrote: "I am afraid your son must have died from his wound. It is a great distress to us all, as he was so keen and interested in his work, and such a bold and reliable leader." His brother, Capt. R. W. M. Stevens, died of wounds, 27 Aug. 1914. [Illustration: =Lothian Basil Stevens.=] =STEVENS, REGINALD WALTER MORTON=, Capt., Royal Irish Rifles, and Brigade Major, 9th Infantry Brigade, 2nd _s._ of Col. George Morton Stevens, late R.A., by his wife, Mary, dau. of Surg.-Gen. William Campbell Maclean, C.B., M.D., LL.D.; _b._ Dover. 18 Dec. 1876; educ. Mr. T. Eastman's, Stubbington; Appuldurcombe, I.W., and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Royal Irish Rifles, 5 Sept. 1896, and promoted Lieut. Aug. 1898; and Capt. 2 Jan. 1904; joined the 2nd Battn. at Poona in Oct. 1896; served in the South African War, Oct. 1890-1902; took part in operations in Cape Colony, 1899 to 1900 (was severely wounded at Stormberg, 10 Dec. 1899) and Nov 1900, to April, 1901 (Assistant Staff Officer to Assistant Inspector-Gen., Western Section, Lines of Communication), and in Orange River Colony, April, 1901, to 21 May, 1902 (Queen's medal with two clasps, King's medal with two clasps); and (2) in East Africa; was Special Service Officer on Staff during operations in Somaliland, 7 May, 1903, to 12 June, 1904; present at action at Jedballi (medal with two clasps); was Adjutant 25 Jan. 1905 to 25 Jan. 1908, and Officer of a company of Gentlemen Cadets at the R.M.C., Sandhurst, 25 Jan. 1908 to 21 Jan. 1910; joined the Staff College in 1910; was attd. to the Naval War College, Portsmouth, 1912, and 1 Nov. of that year was appointed Brigade Major, 9th Infantry Brigade, Southern Command, an appointment he continued to hold until his death. He went to the front 13 Aug. 1914; was in action at Le Cateau on the 26th, and an urgent order to retire instantly having been received, to ensure its reaching the front line and being acted on without delay, Capt. Stevens rode himself to deliver it and was mortally wounded in doing so, and died in a farmhouse the following day, 27 Aug. 1914. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French's Despatch of 8 Oct. [London Gazette, 19 Oct.], 1914, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He _m._ at Alverstoke, Hants, 1912, Elisabeth (Cambridge Cottage, Alverstoke), dau. of the late Rev. J. C. Mace, of Hawley, Blackwater, and had a dau., Agnes Desirée, _b._ 11 Sept. 1914--two weeks after her father's death. [Illustration: =Reginald W. M. Stevens.=] =STEVENS, WILLIAM FREDERICK=, Petty Officer (N.S.), 23397, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =STEVENS, WILLIAM HENRY=, Petty Officer, 226024, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =STEVENSON, CHARLES=, Lc.-Corpl., No. 1803, 3/1st Battn. R.A.M.C. (T.F.), _s._ of Charles Stevenson, Ex-Provost of South Queensferry, West Lothian, by his wife, Jeanie, dau. of Robert Gibb, of Paisley, Scotland and Manitoba, Canada; _b._ Milngavie, 1873; educ. South Queensferry Public School; was an Organist and Choirmaster (retired); volunteered after the outbreak of war; left England for the Dardanelles, 30 July, 1915, and was drowned when H.M. Transport Royal Edward was sunk in the Ægean Sea, 13 Aug. 1915, by an enemy submarine; _unm._ [Illustration: =Charles Stevenson.=] =STEVENSON, GEORGE=, Corpl., No. 9137, B. Coy., 1st Battn. Cameron Highlanders (Machine Gun Section), 3rd _s._ of the late John Kay Stevenson, 41, Muirpark, Eskbank, Dalkeith, late Sergt., 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (died 23 Nov. 1915), by his wife, Jessie, dau. of the late Charles Graham, of Kirkcaldy, Master Painter; _b._ Eskbank, Dalkeith, co. Midlothian, 31 Aug. 1893; educ. Dalkeith High School; enlisted 4 Oct. 1911; went to France with his regt., and was killed in action, 14 Sept. 1914, at the Battle of the Aisne; _unm._ Mrs. McLachlan, wife of the Col. Commanding 1st Camerons, wrote: "To-night an officer of the Camerons has just been to see me, and I asked him about your George. He says that he was killed and buried on the battlefield during a lull in the fighting. He also said that George was a very fine soldier, and a great loss to the Machine-Gun Section." =STEWART, CHARLES=, Private, No. 9511, 2nd Battn. Scots Guard; _b._ Anderston, Glasgow; enlisted 26 Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 16 May, 1915. =STEWART, DONALD=, Private, No. 4576, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, _s._ of P. Stewart, of the Isle of Skye; _b._ Skye; enlisted 21 Aug. 1902; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 4 Nov. 1914. =STEWARD, EDMUND=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9115), 200012, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =STEWART, DOUGLAS EVERARD MACBEAN=, Lieut.-Col. 1st Canterbury Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Francis Macbean Stewart, L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S., of Canterbury, New Zealand, formerly of Inverness, Scotland, by |