Williamson, Stephen de Thierry (1897 - 1915)

Second Lieutenant, 2nd Bn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

Buried at Brown's Road Military Cemetery, Festubert

Commemorated at

Second Lieutenant S. De T. Williamson was another of our young heroes, being only eighteen years of age when he fell in action on 12th March, 1915. He was the son of the late Mr. Stephen Williamson and Mrs. Williamson, 9 Queen Margaret Crescent. He was educated at Hillhead High School and Fettes College. A tall, handsome figure, he looked every inch a soldier and he merely did what everyone expected of him when he joined the Cameronians at the very beginning of the war.

Lieutenant Williamson was a radiant spirit, and diffused happiness around him. He came of a fighting stock, as his great-grandfather, Chevalier De Thiery, acted as despatch rider to the Allied Army at the Battle of Waterloo.

Lieutenant Williamson is still another of the many "only sons" who have fallen in this war. The heartfelt sympathy of the whole School goes out to his widowed mother.