Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (Ralph Tapley Stevenson) good very fine £60-£80

Ralph Tapley Stevenson was born in Bermondsey, London, in April 1889, and was employed at the National Provincial Bank, Dorking as a Bank Clerk. He was commissioned into the 5th (City of London) Battalion, London Rifle Brigade, London Regiment as a Second Lieutenant and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 3 August 1918 at Killem, near Dunkirk; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial, France.