College
Borough Road College
WW1 rank
Second Lieutenant
Leicestershire Regiment, 9th Battalion
Theatre of war
Europe
Date of death
14 July 1916
Location of death
Del-ville Wood, Battle of the Somme
Buried/memorial
Thiepval Memorial (Grave/Memorial reference: Pier and Face 2 C and 3 A.)
Biography
Second Lieutenant William Head Stephens attended Borough Road College for two years, and is listed as being destined for the 10th Battalion Leicester Regiment once he had left the college. Stephens was killed on 14 July 1916. His commanding Officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Haig wrote to his parents that day saying that Stephens had been hit in the hand by a fragment of a shell on the morning of 14 July. Despite his injury, after having it dressed, he elected to return to his company, reaching them around 10am. He was killed later that same day.
Sources
Entry on p.87 [Roll of Honour page], Mentioned on Framed Borough Road College Roll of Honour, 1916 Annual Report, University of London O.T.C. Roll of the Fallen, Mathew Richardson – The Tigers p.130