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Personal data

• Name STEVENSON
• Initials DB
• First name DOUGLAS BAPTIST
• Place of birth Colombo
• Country Ceylon
• Family Youngest son of Alex. and Louie Stevenson, of 4, Vanbrugh Park Rd. West, Blackheath, London
• Education Christ's Hospital and King's College, London.
• Extra info Another Sopwith was involved and attacked by the Albatros D.III of Lt Str?e. The pilot, Lubbock and his observer, Thompson did not survive.
  All four are buried at Lijssenthoek.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment At the outbreak of war
• Rank Second Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit 45th Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
• Other data related to military career Commission in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry; sent to the front in July 1916, attached to the Yorkshire Light Infantry. Transferred to the RFC in February 1916.

Death

• Wounded The Sopwith Strutter A1071 was involved in an aerial combat between Ypres and Potijze, at 11.15 a.m.; was shot down by the Albatros D.III of Lt Josef Flink Ja 18; out of control, wings folded, wrecked; the pilot, 2Lt HGC Bowden was also killed in action (and is buried in Lijssenthoek)
  
• Date of death 11 March 1917
• Died at the age of 21
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery X - A - 15

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