Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private E. Stevens, 1st Regiment, South African Infantry, who was killed in action on 12 April 1917

1914-15 Star (Pte. E. Stevens 4th. Infantry); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Pte. E. Stevens. 1st. S.A.I.) glue residence to reverse of all, generally very fine (3) £80-£100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Bernard Harris Collection of Medals to the 1st Regiment, South African Infantry.

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Emil Stevens, a farmer, was born in Cradock in 1893, the son of John Ward Stevens of Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa. Witnessing initial service in German South West Africa with the Eastern Rifles, Stevens attested at Potchefstroom for the 1st South African Infantry on 6 January 1916 and disembarked at Rouen on 27 July 1916. Posted to the Western Front, he survived the Battle of the Somme but was killed in the spring of 1917 during intense fighting for control of the French city of Arras. Aged 24 years, he is buried in Brown’s Copse Cemetery, Roeux.

Sold with copied service record and CWGC entries.