Archibald Stevenson
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service No: S/40376
Place of Birth: Oban
Date of Death: 14/6/1917
Theatre of Death: F&F
Age: 28
Regiment/Service: Gordon Highlanders (1st Bn)
Cemetery: Arras Memorial
Additional information: Son of Mrs Jessie Stevenson of 53 High Street, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Mother Jessie Stevenson.
1901 census information:
Address: 5 Lochavullin Terrace, Oban.
Father: Hutton (49) mason, born about 1852 in Rutherglen.
Mother: Jessie (47) born about 1854 in Rutherglen.
Brother: John (22) steward, born about 1879 in Rutherglen.
Brother: William (15) railway employee, born about 1886 in Oban.
Self: Archie (13) born about 1888 in Oban.
Brother: Alfred (3) born about 1898 in Oban.
Sister: Elizabeth (1) born about 1900 in Oban.
1901 census information:
The family are living in Kilmore and Kilbride. The family comprises Hutton 60, Jessie 58, Archie 22, Alfred 13 and Eliza 11.
Newspaper transcript – L.-Cl. A. Stevenson, Rutherglen. Mrs Stevenson, 53 High Street, Rutherglen, has been informed that her son, Lance-Coral. Archibald Stevenson, Gordon Highlanders, was killed in action on June 14. He was the fifth son of the late Hatton Stevenson, Oban. He was 28 years of age, and was a Carter with Stevenson, Rutherglen.
Also commemorated on the memorial in Wardlawhill Church, Rutherglen.