Edward Lancelot STEVENSON

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STEVENSON, Edward Lancelot

Service Number:	353
Enlisted:	31 August 1914
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	9th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Rockley, New South Wales, Australia, 1886
Home Town:	Drillham, Western Downs, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Died of wounds, Egypt, 9 May 1915
Cemetery:	Cairo War Memorial Cemetery Row B, Grave No. 234.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bathurst War Memorial Carillon, Oberon Shire Honour Roll

31 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private
24 Sep 1914:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 353, 9th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Omrah embarkation_ship_number: A5 public_note: ''
24 Sep 1914:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 353, 9th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Omrah, Brisbane

Biography contributed by Judith Morgan

Correction: Lance's father was James Cumming Stevenson

Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Edward Lancelot Stevenson was one of four brothers who served during WW1. Only one survived. They were the sons of John Canning and Jane Alice Stevenson, of Bathurst, New South Wales.

Edward enlisted during August 1914, one of the first Australians to join up, and he was an original of C Company 9th Battalion, one of the first units ashore at the Anzac Landing. He was mortally on that first day, a gunshot wound to the head. He was evacuated to Egypt by hospital ship and died fifteen days later in Cairo.

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