Sidney Stevens

Bank: Coutts & Co

Place of work: London Strand office

Died: 26 April 1943

Sidney George Worringham Stevens was born in Croydon, London in 1916, the son of Annie Louise and Henry Thomas Worringham Stevens. He worked for Coutts & Co, London.

Having previous military training at the Whitgift School Officer Training Corps from 1930 to 1934, Stevens joined the Inns of Court Regiment as a Territorial Soldier in November 1936 and remained with it until 1939. He was commissioned in October of that year as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons and promoted to Lieutenant in April 1941. He served in Palestine, Syria and in North Africa with the 8th Army. Lieutenant Stevens was wounded whilst fighting at Goubellat, Tunisia on 23 April 1943 and later died of his injuries in the 84th General Hospital on 26 April 1943. He was 26 years old.

Sidney Stevens is commemorated on a bank memorial at Coutts & Co, London 440 Strand.