Kent Stevenson was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on 13 March 1908 to Mr and Mrs H.M. Stevenson. He was married and had three children.

He left Canada in 1936 to work in England, joining the BBC in March 1941, transferring to the War Reporting Unit in 1943. He underwent rigorous military and survival training and was trained in the use of a new lightweight recorder developed by BBC engineers known as ‘Midget Disk Recorders’ or ‘Riverside Portables’ allowing his reports to be recorded straight onto disc.

On 22 June 1944, he was a passenger on board 49 Sqn. Lancaster LL900 recording the crew on a mission to attack a synthetic oil plant at Wesseling when it was shot down by a German night fighter near Julich-Mersch with the loss of all crewmembers.

Kent is buried in Rheinberg War Cemetery, plot 14.B.9.S