Private Thomas Stevenson

Private Thomas Stevenson, 1st Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. He was killed in action in Belgium, aged 21, on the 26th September 1917 during the Third Battle of Ypres. He had been born in Dumfries and was the son of John and Isabella of Black Bull Street, Duns and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot memorial, Zonnebeke, Flanders, Belgium. He had served his apprenticeship in his father’s fishmongers business in Duns and he was also a member of the Territorial 4th Kings own Scottish Borderers. He was mobilised in August 1914 but was unable to proceed overseas with his Battalion due to having a major operation in Craigleith Military Hospital in Edinburgh. In summer 1917 he was eventually drafted to the 1st K.O.S.B. in France but was then posted to the 1st R.S.F. The photos show the atrocious condition of the Flanders battlefield where the incessant shelling had destroyed the fragile drainage systems.

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