Alick Stevens

Air Marshal Sir Alick Charles Stevens KBE CB (31 July 1898 – 2 July 1987) was a Royal Air Force officer who became Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at RAF Coastal Command.

RAF career
Educated at Victoria College, Jersey, Stevens joined the Royal Naval Air Service in 1916. He served in World War I and was shot down over the North Sea in November 1916 becoming a Prisoner of War. He was appointed Officer Commanding No. 205 Squadron in 1935. He served in World War II as Deputy Director and then Director of Operations (Naval Co-operation) until 1943 when he became Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters No. 18 (Reconnaissance) Group. He was made Air Officer Commanding RAF Gibraltar in 1944.

After the War he served as Air Officer Commanding No. 47 Group, Air Officer Commanding No. 4 Group and then Air Officer Commanding No. 22 Group before being appointed Commander of British Forces Aden in 1948. He went on to be Air Officer Commanding RAF East Africa before becoming Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters RAF Coastal Command in 1950 and then Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at RAF Coastal Command in 1951 and retiring in 1953.