Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
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Family Search: When Richard Maddern Stevens was born on 31 July 1895, in St Ives, Cornwall, England, his father, Robert Stevens, was 33 and his mother, Mary Maddern, was 31. He immigrated to Canada in 1913 and lived in St Ives, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years and Metchosin, British Columbia, Canada in 1921. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 20, his occupation is listed as farmer. He died on 8 March 1961, at the age of 65.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 