BORN NEWLAND, HULL 1885. MARRIED ON 18/11/1911. HUSBAND OF MINNIE STEPHENSON, OF HIGH STREET, EASTRINGTON, AND 1 MARKET PLACE, HOWDEN.
HE WAS A POLICEMAN AND MEMBER OF THE EAST RIDING CONSTABULARY.
HE ENLISTED AT BEVERLEY. SERVED WITH THE SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS. DIED BETWEEN 20TH- 23/11/1917, AGED 32.
HIS WAR PENSION WENT TO HIS WIDOW MINNIE AND SON, JOHN WILLIAM (BORN 28 MAR 1915) AT 1 MARKET PLACE, HOWDEN, YORKSHIRE. (PENSION LEDGER’S ADDRESS). SHE RECEIVED A WEEKLY WAR PENSION OF 20/5 SHILLINGS ON 24 JUNE 1918.
WILLIAM STEPHENSON IS LISTED AS A HULL CASUALTY IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 05/01/1918.
BURIED AT ANNEUX BRITISH CEMETERY. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “THY WILL BE DONE”.
COMMEMORATED ON THE EAST RIDING POLICE MEMORIAL PLAQUE, AT ST MARY’S CHURCH, HENGATE, BEVERLEY. (Out of twenty Policemen on the WW1 Memorial Plaque, eleven joined the Seaforth Highlanders and six were killed on the same day at Loos, 25 Sept 1915. the connection seems to have come from Beverley’s Chief Constable’s son, who was gazetted to the Seaforths and encouraged other policemen to join him)
