Next of kin plaque : Lance Corporal Gilbert Alexander Stevenson, 1st Pioneer Battalion, AIF

Bronze next of kin plaque, showing on the obverse, Britannia holding a laurel wreath, the British lion, dolphins, a spray of oak leaves and the words 'HE DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR' around the edge. Beneath the main figures, the British lion defeats the German eagle. The initials 'ECP', for the designer Edward Carter Preston appear above the lion's right forepaw. A raised rectangle above the lion's head bears the name 'GILBERT ALEXANDER STEVENSON'. A checker's mark, '22', is impressed behind the lion's rear right paw. Reverse is unmarked.

Born in Marnoo, Victoria, Gilbert Alexander Stevenson was employed as a farm labourer in New South Wales when he travelled to Sydney to enlist in the AIF, on 29 August 1914. After basic training he was posted a private, service number 1582, to A Company, 3rd Battalion. The unit sailed from Sydney on, aboard HMAT Euripides, and arrived in Egypt on 2 December.

The battalion landed at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. On 23 September Stevenson was evacuated to hospital on Mudros suffering from dysentery, but was able to return to Gallipoli before the end of the month. Third battalion returned to Egypt at the end of December.

Stevenson was promoted lance corporal on 10 March 1916, and transferred to 1st Pioneer Battalion the same day. He arrived in France for service on the Western Front with his new unit on 2 April. Stevenson was killed on 23 July, the first day of the battle of Pozieres. He was 20 years old. His body was not recovered for burial and he is commemorated on the Villers- Bretonneux Memorial in France.

This memorial plaque was sent to his father, Thomas Vallence Stevenson, in November 1922.