Stephen Peter Llewellyn MBE (18 July 1913 – 14 November 1960) was a New Zealand soldier, historian, journalist and novelist.
Returning to civilian life as a freelance journalist at the end of 1954, he later had three novels published, one after his death from heart issues in 1960.
Assigned to the Divisional Ammunition Company, he left New Zealand for the Middle East in early 1940 with the rest of the 1st Echelon of the 2NZEF.
It was particularly well received and commended for its narrative style, in contrast to some other volumes of the official histories which were thought to be turgid and stilted.
[2] Part of Kippenberger's work involved the production of what were called Episodes and Studies, booklets of specific aspects of the war; Llewellyn wrote one of these, entitled Troopships, which discussed the transportation of the 2NZEF to and from New Zealand.
[1][3] After a short period working with the New Zealand Forest Service, Llewellyn returned to the United Kingdom for a time.
However, shortly afterwards the Korean War broke out and Llewellyn volunteered to join Kayforce, the New Zealand contribution to the United Nations Command.
He also turned to writing fiction and 1958, while he was living in the United Kingdom to care for his ill mother, he published his first novel, The Score at Tea-time which was set in Japan during the Korean War and involved New Zealand and British characters in a courtmartial.
A second novel, The Angel in the Coffin was published a few years later, and was a mystery set on a passenger ship destined for New Zealand.