Stephens, Noel Gordon

STEPHENS,

NOEL GORGON

BORN 22 NOVEMBER 1888

Noel Gordon Stephens was

born on 22 November 1888 in Barton Regis, Gloucestershire, son of Frederick Gordon Stephens (b 1858 in Evesham, Worcestershire) and Maria Ann Stephens (née Hodgkins, b 1859 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire).

By 1901 census records show a large family living in 8 Elmgrove Road, Bristol. Father was a Colonial Produce Agent and apart from Noel, the family included daughters Theodora (b 1886), Frances (b 1887), Hester Elizabeth Gordon (b 1892), Kathleen Gordon (b 1894), Mary Eileen Gordon (b 1895) and son James Eric Gordon (b 1897). All the children were born in Bristol.

Noel joined Form II of the School on 30 April 1903, aged 14. The family still lived at 8 Elmgrove Road, Cotham. He left in July 1904, aged 15.

In the 1911 census records show the family living at 18 Elmgrove Road, Bristol.

Noel enlisted on 3 November 1916, serving as a Sergeant Cadet in the Gloucester Regiment, 2nd/6th Battalion. He was discharged due to sickness on 2 April 1917 and died on 20 November 1920, aged 31, leaving behind his parents living at 15 Westbury Road, Westbury on Trym, Bristol.

He is remembered with Honour at Bristol (Canford) Cemetery.

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