In Memory Of

STEVENS, EMIL

Service Details
Age:
 24
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 8798
Rank:
 Private
Unit:
 1st Regt.
Unit 2:
 "B" Coy.
Regiment:
 South African Infantry
Date of Death:
 1917-04-12
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, in the improvised and disastrous attack of the 9th (Scottish) Division on the German positions in the East of Fampoux. The 1st SAI lost 2 officers and 203 men.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 II. B. 6.
Cemetery:
 BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX
Localitly:
 Pas de Calais
Country:
 France
Additional Information
Son of Annie Florence and the late John Ward Stevens, of Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa. Born Cradock 1893. Served in German South West Africa with the Eastern Rifles, Stevens attested at Potchefstroom for the 1st South African Infantry on 6 January 1916 and disembarked at Rouen on 27 July 1916. Posted to the Western Front, he survived the Battle of the Somme but was killed in the spring of 1917 during intense fighting for control of the French city of Arras