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Rifleman Ernest Augustus Stevenson

 

Stevenson EA

 

Rifleman Ernest Augustus Stevenson, 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles, Service No. 40919. Formerly North Irish Horse, Service No. 943. Son of Joseph Stevenson, Derrytrasna, Lurgan, County Armagh. Killed in action on 16 August 1917 during the assault on Langemarck, part of the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele), aged 29. No known grave. Commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlanderen, Belgium, Panel 140.

Image kindly provided by Steve Rogers, Project Co-ordinator of the The War Graves Photographic Project, www.twgpp.org.