Leigh Stevenson

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| honorific-prefix =

| name =Leigh Stevenson

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| image = Air Vice-Marshal L F Stevenson.jpg

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| office = Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

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| term_start = 1946

| term_end = 1952

| constituency=Vancouver-Point Grey

| birth_date = 24 April 1895

| birth_place = Richibucto, New Brunswick

| death_date = {{death date and age|1989|3|3|1895|4|24|df=y}}

| death_place=Vancouver, British Columbia

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| spouse =Lilian Myrtle Comber

| party =Coalition

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| nickname = Stevie

| allegiance = Canada
United Kingdom

| branch = Canadian Expeditionary Force
Royal Flying Corps
Royal Canadian Air Force

| serviceyears = {{circa}}1915–1919
1921–1945

| rank = Air Vice Marshal

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| commands = Western Air Command
RCAF Overseas Headquarters
Camp Borden
RCAF Station Winnipeg

| battles = First World War
Second World War

| mawards = Companion of the Order of the Bath{{London Gazette|issue=36310|page=49|date=31 December 1943|supp=y}}
Mentioned in Despatches
Commander of the Legion of Merit (United States)

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Air Vice Marshal Leigh Forbes Stevenson, {{postnominals|country=CAN|size=100|CB}} (24 April 1895 – 3 March 1989) was a senior commander in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. Early in the First World War he served in the trenches on the Western Front before becoming a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps. After the war he joined the fledgling Canadian Air Force. Stevenson remained in Air Force service when in 1924 the Royal Canadian Air Force was founded and served throughout the inter-war years.

On 16 October 1940 Stevenson was appointed Air Officer Commanding the RCAF in Great Britain (changed to Air Officer-in-Chief the RCAF in Great Britain on 6 November) at the RCAF Overseas Headquarters in London. In 1942 he returned to Canada to take command of Western Air Command. In 1946, he was elected to represent Vancouver-Point Grey in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a member of the Coalition government; he served until 1952.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0SIMAQAAMAAJ&q=leigh+forbes+stevenson+mla|title = Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage|year = 1973}} He died at his home in Vancouver in 1989.[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-province-obituary-for-leigh-stevenso/126240318/ Obituary]