This name is on the St Mark's War Memorial, Kennington Oval, London SE11
(Stevens, Jack Oliver)
(Jack Oliver, Stevens)
Corporal, Rifle Brigade, 8th Battalion
Service no B/2037
Died 30 July 1915
Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium and at St Mark's Church, London SE11
Brother of Arthur Leslie Stevens
Information from the censuses
In 1911 Jack Oliver Stevens, aged 15, was living with his mother, Helen Elizabeth Stevens, 50, at 7 Hanover Gardens (this street is almost directly opposite St Mark's Church). Helen was born in Soho and was working as a tailoress. Jack was an errand boy for a shirtmaker and was born in Fulham. Helen stated that she had had 6 children, 5 of them surviving.
Meanwhile, Arthur Leslie Stevens, aged 18, was working as a wood machinist (joinery) living with his aunt and uncle, John James Chambers (a "tailor maker") and Rosina Chambers (a skirt machinist). He was born in "Middlesex, Westminster". Also in the household was Edith Nellie Stevens, 21, presumably his sister, as well as Rosina Eliza Chambers, 14, daughter of John and Rosina, and Eliza Stevens, 77, Rosina's mother.
In 1901 Helen and Jack (then 5) lived at 7 St John Street in the parish of St Margaret and St John in St George's, Hanover Square (Westminster). The census record includes Frederick Stevens, Jack's father, who was born in about 1859 in Lambeth. He was a commercial traveller so possibly he was away from home when the 1911 census was taken.