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John Wardlaw Stevens

Informatie over geboorte

Geboortedatum:
27/05/1891
Geboorteplaats:
Wallacetown, Southland, Nieuw-Zeeland

Algemene Informatie

Beroep:
Landbouwer

Informatie legerdienst

Land:
Nieuw-Zeeland
Strijdmacht:
New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Rang:
Private
Service nummer:
53276
Dienstneming datum:
23/03/1917
Dienstneming plaats:
Invercargill, Southland, Nieuw-Zeeland
Eenheden:
 —  Otago Regiment, 2nd Bn.  (Laatst gekende eenheid)

Informatie over overlijden

Datum van overlijden:
24/12/1917
Plaats van overlijden:
Reutel, Beselare, Belgiƫ
Doodsoorzaak:
Killed in action (K.I.A.)
Leeftijd:
26

Begraafplaats

Tyne Cot Cemetery
Plot: XLIV
Rij: F
Graf: 26

Onderscheidingen en medailles 2

British War Medal
Medaille
Victory Medal
Medaille

Points of interest 3

#1 Geboorteplaats
#2 Dienstneming plaats
#3 Plaats van overlijden (bij benadering)

Mijn verhaal

Private John Wardlaw Stevens served in the Otago Regiment 2nd Battalion, part of the 2nd New Zealand Brigade, of the New Zealand Division.
The Otago Regiment 2nd Battalion moved back into the frontline, East of Polygon Wood, on the 22nd of December 1917. The 2nd Battalion had to defend and fortify the line near the hamlet of Reutel. On the 24th of December 1917 the German artillery heavily shelled the line of the New Zealanders. Including the positions occupied by the 2nd Otago, causing about twenty-six casualties. Six men of the 2nd Otago were killed instantly, due to the shelling, while around twenty men were wounded.
Private John Wardlaw Stevens was one of the six men who were killed, due to the German shelling on the 2nd Otago positions near Reutel. His comrades buried him close to the line, roughly shown on the map, (at coordinate 28.J.11.c.8.6.). Later on he was reburied on Tyne Cot Cemetery.

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