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Neville Stephenson was born in Willerby the 15 Aug 1892 and baptised at Kirk Ella Parish Church the 11 Sep 1892, the son of Neville Stephenson and Mary Jane Burgess. Mary was from Atwick and Neville senior was from Beverley. Neville senior was a builder and contractor. Neville attended Hull Grammar School and then worked for the Hull and Barnsley Railway Company as a clerk, he was unmarried.
Neville enlisted on 12 Nov 1915 at Hull’s Central Recruiting Office and was assigned to the 14th (Reserve) Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment. He trained at Clipstone Camp, Nottinghamshire but found training hard despite having passed his army medical. On 28 Jan 1916 Neville was admitted to hospital with “a high temperature, extreme weakness” and his conditions worsened in subsequent days. Though one of his army papers claims he was suffering from “acute rheumatism”, he was actually suffering from broncho-pneumonia and died at 12.35am on 11 Feb 1916 at Mansfield Military Hospital. Neville’s medical case sheet is signed by Lt-Col E Hewitt of the RAMC and notes that, “this man died of a disease attributable to military service”. Neville was buried in the Kirk Ella churchyard on 14 Feb 1916 and his name is on the Kirk Ella and Willerby War Memorial.
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