David Stevenson

STEVENSON, DAVID

Rank: Private
Service No: G/52128
Date of Death: 18/07/1918
Age: 23
Regiment/Service: Middlesex Regiment 13th Bn.
Grave Reference: V. G. 1.
Cemetery: BULLY-GRENAY COMMUNAL CEMETERY, BRITISH EXTENSION
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• First name(s) David
• Last name Stevenson
• Year 1914-20
• Service number G/52128
• Rank Private
• Regiment Middlesex Regiment
• Service record Soldier Number: G/52128, Rank: Private, Corps: Middlesex Regiment
• Image link http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D5385878
• Country Great Britain
• Medal type British Army medal index cards, 1914-1920
• Archive reference WO372/19

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War pardon will clear First World War rogues and innocents timesonline

By the time that Private David Stevenson set sail for war in 1917, his military record already marked him out as a heavy-drinking "malingerer" with 24 offences. Once in France with the Lowland Field Artillery, his conduct included dishonesty and desertion. He was shot at dawn on July 13, 1918, aged 23. Stevenson, whose commanding officer described as being of "distinctly bad" character, will receive a posthumous pardon under the Government's proposals for all 306 WW1 soldiers executed for battlefield offences during the Great War.

The case shows that not all the 306 were shell-shocked victims.

References

• http://www.executedtoday.com/2015/07/13/1918-private-david-stevenso...
• http://www.wartimememoriesproject.com/greatwar/view.php?uid=217861
• Shot at Dawn By Julian Putkowski, Julian Sykes
• Page 351-3 - Blindfold and Alone by Cathryn Corns and John Hughes-Wilson