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Arthur Stevens was born in Corfe Mullen in Dorset, near Wimborne in Sep 1890 and baptised the 28 Sep 1890 at the parish church, as George Arthur Stevens. He was the son of George A Stevens and his wife Annie. By 1911 Arthur was working as a chauffeur for J McNie of Doncaster and boarding at his property at Waterdale in the town. Arthur moved to the Beverley area and was chauffeur to Harry Whitworth, Scorborough Hall, a Master of the Hounds and a maltster and brewer. In 1914 Arthur married Diana Newlove the daughter of the stationmaster at Arram railway station. Their daughter Eileen, was born in late 1914, they moved to 20 Norwood Grove, Beverley.
Arthur served in the Motor Transport section of the (Royal) Army Service Corps arriving in France on 18 Aug 1915. He was awarded the War and Victory Medals as well as the 1914-15 Star. At the end of the war instead of being demobilised Arthur went to Germany as part of the British Army of the Rhine, arriving on German territory on 3 Dec 1918, based in Cologne. According to a report in the Beverley Guardian of 8 Mar 1919 Arthur died of pneumonia, on 14 Feb 1919. He was buried in the Cologne Southern Cemetery where British POW's who had died in captivity and British occupying troops were laid to rest. His second child, Arthur G, was born in early summer 1919.
Arthur is remembered on Beverley’s Hengate War Memorial, A J Stevens. He is also remembered on the Norwood Street Shrine.
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