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Military service
Service number:
R/171883
Age:
20
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
576 Sqdn.
Birth:
June 3, 1924
New Westminister, British Columbia
Enlistment:
July 2, 1942
Edmonton, Alberta
Death:
December 27, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 255.
Additional information
Son of Homer and Ruby Stevenson of Dawson Creek, British Columbia.
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He was a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force during WWII. The Lancaster Mk3 he was in was shot down. He was shot by a guard in Stalag Luft 7 during an air raid. He died 12/27/44 when he was only 19 in a Polish hospital behind the lines. -
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Page from the diary of Robert Emmett Toomey mentioning Stevenson, a friend, who was shot by a guard at Stalag Luft 7 in Bankau. -
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Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Leslie Howard Stevenson is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Leslie Howard Stevenson is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.May 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Leslie Howard Stevenson
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Flight Sergeant Leslie Howard Stevenson
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Leslie Howard Stevenson
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Leslie Howard Stevenson
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Leslie Howard Stevenson
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Leslie Howard Stevenson
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Leslie Howard Stevenson
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Leslie Howard Stevenson
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Leslie Howard Stevenson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 452 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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