Roll of Honour

Private

William Howie Stevenson

Student

William was born on the 2nd June 1897 at 45 Minard Road, Crossmyloof, Glasgow, Lanarkshire. He was the son of William Stevenson and Margaret Wallace Stevenson (nee Howie) who had married on the 31st January 1895 in Pollokshaws. His father worked as a Mercantile Clerk in Glasgow. In 1914 he attended the University of Glasgow for one academic year. He studied Medicine and a variety of subjects including Chemistry, Practical Chemistry, Practical Zoology and Zoology.

Memorial chapel at the University of Glasgow
The Memorial Chapel at the University of Glasgow

William did not finish his degree as having been a member of the University Officers Training Corps he joined the Highland Light Infantry, enlisting on the 15th July 1915. He went to France on the 17th December 1916. Aged just 19, Private William Howie Stevenson died of wounds received on the 10th April 1917. William is buried in Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery, near to the Arras Memorial, which commemorates the battle in which he received his mortal wounds. At the request of his parents his gravestone bears a quotation from Tennyson's In Memorium:

I know transplanted human worth

Will bloom to profit, otherwhere.

Comments and Citations

University of Glasgow Registry records.

Biographical information: Supplied by the family.

Burial Place: Commonwealth War Graves Commi