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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 63

Great War Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Sidney James Stevens), very fine

Two individuals of this name lost their lives during the Great War:

Sidney James Stevens, a Private in the 1/5th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, and a member of the famous 'Vanished Battalion', landed on ‘A’ Beach at Suvla on 10 August 1915: 48 hours later, the Battalion ‘disappeared’ without trace during the attack on the Kuchak Anafarta Ova. He is commemorated upon the Helles Memorial.

Sidney James Stevens, a native of Borough High Street, London, was killed in action whilst serving as a Private in the Royal Marine Light Infantry. Stevens was aboard H.M.S. Stephen Furness when she was lost on 13 December 1917 and is commemorated upon the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.

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