Canadian Virtual War Memorial
James Stephen
In memory of:
Gunner James Stephen
June 4, 1915
Military Service
41037
19
Army
Canadian Field Artillery
5th Bde
Additional Information
Native of Dundee, Scotland. Son of Charles and Mary Mason Stephen. Brother of Charles, George, John, Robert, Joanne, Mary and Margaret. His brothers George and John served in the Black Watch, John spending his career in the military. His brother George died after the war of pneumonia, having returned home from the war quite ill. Robert and Charles did not go to war as they had large families to support. His sister Joanne Jones (née Stephen) worked in Montreal at the former residence of Sir John A. MacDonald. Most of the family, with the exception of James are buried in Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Commemorated on Page 37 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
BROWN'S ROAD MILITARY CEMETERY, FESTUBERT.
Pas de Calais, France
V. G. 15.
Festubert is a village about 6 kilometres east of Bethune and BROWN'S ROAD MILITARY CEMETERY is a little south-west of the village and just west of the road from Festubert to Givenchy.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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