Stevens L B 2nd Lt 3rd South Staffs Regiment
LOTHIAN BASIL STEVENS, son of Colonel G. M. Stevens, was born in 1894, came up to Balliol as a Blundell Scholar in 1913, and took a First in Mathematical Moderations in 1914. He enlisted in the Public Schools Battalion Middlesex Regiment in August 1914, but was given a commission in October in the 3rd South Staffordshire Regiment, and went to France in March 1915. There he was attached to the 2nd Battalion of the Scottish Rifles, and was killed in the action at Fromelles in May 1915. He was with his platoon, holding a German trench against an overwhelming counter-attack when he was killed.
Stevens was a mathematician of great promise, and a man of wide interests and attractive character. His achievements in his short period at College, and his tragically short career on active service, show that he would have gone far if he had lived. It is eminently fitting that his name, with that of G. M. Paddison, has been associated with the War Memorial Exhibition now attached to the Blundell Scholarship.
Source : Balliol College War Memorial Book
Stevens L B 2nd Lt 2nd South Staffs Regiment
STEVENS, LOTHIAN BASIL, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., attd. 2nd Battn. Scottish Rifles, yst. s. of Col. George Morton Stevens, late R.A., by his wife, Mary, dau. of Surg. -Gen. William Campbell Maclean, C.B., M.D., LL.D.; b. Southampton, 13 March, 1894; educ. Blundells School, Tiverton, and Balliol College, Oxford (Mathematical Scholar); where he took a first-class in moderations in mathematics, July, 1914; joined the Public Schools Battn. of the Middlesex Regt. in Sept. 1914, and obtained a commission in the 3rd South Staffordshires, 3 Oct. 1914; went to France in March, 1915; was attd. to the 2nd Scottish Rifles; was reported wounded and missing after the fighting at Fromelles, 9 May following, and is now assumed to have been killed in action that day; unm. The officer commanding the 2nd Scottish Rifles wrote: “I am afraid your son must have died from his wound. It is a great distress to us all, as he was so keen and interested in his work, and such a bold and reliable leader.” His brother, Capt. R. W. M. Stevens, died of wounds, 27 Aug. 1914.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1