LIEUTENANT ALAN MCDONALD STEVENSON
ROYAL AIR FORCE
5TH APRIL 1918 AGE 18
BURIED: CAIRO WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY, EGYPT
Lieutenant Stevenson was killed in an aeroplane collision in Egypt. The War Grave Commission records his age as 19 but a family gravestone in Barbour Cemetery on the Rosneath Peninsular states that he was "in his 19th year".
His inscription slightly misquotes the fourth verse of John Henry Newman's hymn, 'Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom'.
So long Thy power hath blest me, sure it still
Will lead me on.
O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent, till
The night is gone,
And with the morn those angel faces smile,
Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile!
John Henry Newman 1801-1890