Date of Birth
Unknown
College
Borough Road College
Job(s)
“The Shacklewell” C.S., Dalston
Service number
Unknown
WW1 rank
Acting-Captain
Royal West Surreys
Date of death
23 August 1918
Buried/memorial
Meaulte Military Cemetery, Somme, France
Awards/Honours
Mentioned in Dispatches for bravery
Biography
Acting-Captain John Connel Stevenson attended Borough Road College for two years, playing tennis and acting as the tennis treasurer 1911-12, and is listed as being destined for a school in Dalston. He enlisted into the Middlesex Regiment but was later put into the Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment. He was mentioned in dispatches for bravery. Stevenson was killed on the 23 August 1918 aged 27.
Sources
Entry on p.87 [Roll of Honour page], Mentioned on Framed Borough Road College Roll of Honour, 1911-12 Club Officers Photo [BRCCO 005], BRCSYG033, 1913 Annual reports, Secondary source information provided by Douglas Craik (taken from Commonwealth War Graves Commission)