Report in the Dumfries and Galloway Standard 20 October 1917 regarding the death of Cyril Stanley Geoffrey Stevens

“Intimation has been received that Lieutenant Geoffrey Stanley Stevens, Lancashire Fusiliers, son-in-law of the Rev. F. Wingate Pearse, headmaster of St Ninian’s Boy’s School, Moffat, has been killed in action in France on 9th October. Lieutenant Stevens was married to Miss Wingate Pearse, only daughter of Mr Pearse, just two years ago, and is survived by his widow and an infant son. Lieutenant Stevens had been at the front for about six months.”

Dumfries and Galloway 20 October 1917