Military History

Theatre of War	Medals	Commonwealth War Grave or Memorial
France and Flanders	1914 Star, British War & Victory Medals	Boulogne Eastern Cemetery
Arrived in Theatre	Medal Citation (if app)	SWFHS Area Memorials
22 Nov 1914	see below	Great Wolford
Action, Battle or Other Reason Killed	Date and Place Enlisted	Other War Memorials
Local actions at Ypres	17 Sep 1912	Bledington Cross War Memorial
		Bledington Roll of Honour
Place of Death	Previous Regiments or Units
7th Stationary Hospital, Boulogne	L/Cpl 9639 Gloucestershire Regiment	16 Aug 1914 - Commissioned to 2nd Lt from L/Cpl

Military Cross Citation

Second Lieutenant Arthur Eustace Stevens, 2nd Battalion, The Prince of Wales's Volunteers, (South Lancashire Regiment), attached
1st Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment. (Click here for Gazette)

"For conspicuous gallantry in the operations south of Pilkem, on 6th July, 1915, when in charge of the Grenadier platoon of the Hampshire Regiment, he led his men with the greatest courage, was the first man into the German trenches, and used his grenades
with deadly effect until he was wounded".

Circumstances Leading to Death (Normally from War Diary)           

Arthur is listed as dying of wounds on 16 Jul 1915 at the 7th Stationary Hospital in Boulogne. The war diary states that he was wounded on 6 Jul 1915, the same day he won the Military Cross, and the war diary is transcribed below.

July 5th: Moved up into trenches near Hulls Farm - W of the canal

July 6th: The bombardment of the German trenches began at 5am and continued furiously till 6am, every sort of gun taking part. At 6am 1st Rifle Brigade advanced to German trench which they gained with little loss. Our guns had pounded them to pieces. Several German prisoners came back past our farms. Our guns continued more or less all day and several counter attacks came to nothing. In the evening  1st R.B and 1st Somerset L. who had done a lot of digging in the blazing sun and were exhausted, were relieved by the Lancs Fusiliers and some to the Warwicks. C Coy was moved to the E bank of the canal and B Coy to the W bank.

Casualties Killed 9 other ranks
Wounded 25 other ranks
2/Lt M Bradshaw
2/Lt A E Stevens.   END