Notes
The Roll lists his address as Eastfield.
(CWGC records that Serjeant (Pilot) Thomas Frederick Stephenson D.C.M., service number 769, was serving in 11th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps when he died on 20/11/1917 aged 23, and is commemorated on Stone E/3 of Arras Flying Services Memorial in France. They record him as the son of George Frederick and Annie Georgina Stephenson. On the 1901 census Thomas was living with his parents George and Annie at Park Mount in Scriven, Yorkshire; his was aged 7 and stated to have been born in Rowley Regis, Staffordshire. His birth was registered in Dudley District Staffordshire in 1893. On the 1911 census Thomas was lodging at 100 St Paul's Road in Peterborough, working as an engineering fitter; he gave his place of birth as Dudley. The attestation form in Thomas' Army service file records that he was aged 17 when he joined the Northamptonshire Battery (4th East Anglia Brigade) of the Royal Field Artillery under regimental number 4182 on 12/12/1910; his rank was Trumpeter. At that time he was working as an engineer for Peter Brotherhoods in Peterborough and was living at Elm Villa, Walton, Peterborough. He left the Royal Field Artillery at his own request on 8/6/1913. The citation for Thomas' Distinguished Conduct Medal appeared on 1/3/1918 in London Gazette Supplement 30555; Page 2749).