Vere Cumming STEVENSON MM

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STEVENSON, Vere Cumming

Service Number:	2036
Enlisted:	19 February 1916
Last Rank:	Second Lieutenant
Last Unit:	34th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Oberon, New South Wales, Australia, 1890
Home Town:	Bathurst, Bathurst Regional, New South Wales
Schooling:	Public School, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in action, France, 14 July 1918
Cemetery:	Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery Plot VII Row A Grave 8.
Memorials:	Bathurst War Memorial Carillon, Oberon Shire Honour Roll

World War 1 Service

19 Feb 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, 2036, 54th Infantry Battalion
23 Jun 1916:	Embarked Private, 2036, 54th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Barambah, Sydney
23 Jun 1916:	Involvement Private, 2036, 54th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Barambah embarkation_ship_number: A37 public_note: ''
23 Sep 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, 34th Infantry Battalion
8 Feb 1918:	Honoured Military Medal
1 Jun 1918:	Promoted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 34th Infantry Battalion
14 Jul 1918:	Involvement AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 2036, 34th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Vere Cumming STEVENSON was born in Oberon, NSW in 1890

His parents were James Cumming STEVENSON & Jane Alice HOGAN who married in 1879 (registered in Bathurst, NSW)

He enlisted in Bathurst on 19th February, 1916 as a Private & embarked with the 54th Infantry Battalion 3rd Reinforcements from Sydney on the HMAT Barambah on 23rd June 1916

Promotions:

Private 24.9.1916

Lance Corporal 30.7.17

Corporal 12.10.17

Sergeant (Temp) 12.10.17

Reverted to Corporal 22.11.17

EDP Sergeant 14.3.18

Appointed Second Lieutenant 1.6.18

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He was awarded the Military Medal on 8th February, 1918 for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty at the Battle of Ypres (Phase 5), 12th October, 1917, when all Officers of his Company became casualities he organised the Company and carried on fighting.

He was one of the party detailed by an officer to capture a strong point, which yielded 4 machine guns and 35 prisoners in an attack on a 2nd strong point after the officer had been killed, he assisted the Sergeant to organise the party & captured the post of 2 machine guns & 30 prisoners

After the Company had dug in on the new line, he organised a ration party & succeeded in getting rations forward to the Front Line troops through a heavy Barrage.......Commonwealth Gazette no. 95, 27th June 1019

Vere was Killed in Action on 14th July 1918 and is buried in the Villers Bretonneux Military Cemetery

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Brothers who also served

1. Edward Lancelot STEVENSON (SN 353) died of wounds in 1915

2. James Garnet STEVENSON (SN 2502) Killed in Action in 1918

3. John Leslie STEVENSON (SN 2001) Returned to Australia & discharged in 1919 - he also enlisted for WW2 (SN N105943) with the 13th Garrison Battalion and was discharged in 1946

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