ORIGINAL AVENUE OF HONOUR NAME PLATE C.1929

Service number 58/69120

On the 16^thMay 1915 William was inflicted with gunshot wounds to both his thighs.

Returned to Australia on the 11^thJanuary 1918.

Discharged on the 25^thMay 1918.

Twice William tried to re-enlist, he was finally pronounced medically unfit.

Pakenham Gazette (4^thOctober 1918)

“Pte Will Stevens who was the first to enlist from Beaconsfield, on the 4^th August 1914, and who returned to Australia in March of this year, has re-enlisted for service. His service abroad totalled 1375 days. He was twice wounded in Gallipoli and afterwards met with an accident in France. Pte Stevens, of North Fitzroy, has two brothers at the front, one in the flying corps in Palestine, who has received his commission and granted promotion to the rank of Captain, and another in the gun section in France. (Brothers John Talbot Tuck Stevens and Thomas Walter Stevens.)”

In 1919 William married Louisa Florence Rae, they lived in Albury and later Ferntree Gully.

Died in November 1963 at Heidelberg Repatriation General Hospital, Victoria.

Buried on the 7^thNovember 1963 at Fawkner Cemetery, Victoria.