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In memory of:

Second Radio Officer Maud Elizabeth Steane

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Military service

Age: 28
Rank: Second Radio Officer
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: DS Viggo Hansteen (Washington DC)
Birth: July 11, 1916 Toronto, Ontario
Death: August 14, 1944 Piombiono, Italy

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: VI. C. 2.
Additional information
Daughter of Frederick William Steane and Elizabeth Amy Brain from Toronto, Ontario. During the First World War, Frederick served with the Canadian Army Service Corps of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, regimental number 527657, from 12 January 1916 to 12 August 1920, demobilised with the rank of Staff Sergeant, without having taken part in the fighting.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 233 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY Italy

FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY stands on the right bank of the River Arno, just south of the road to Pontassieve and to Arezzo and 5 kilometres east of Florence. Take the A1 Roma to Milano road and exit at Firenze sud. Follow the road (No.67) towards Pontassieve and Arezzo.

The cemetery is permanently open and may be visited outside the working hours of the local gardening staff but will be unmanned.

The local gardening staff working hours are as follows:
From first Monday in April:
Monday to Thursday: 07.30 to 12.00 and 13.00 to 16.45
Friday: 07.30 to 12.00 and 13.00 to 15.30
From first Monday in October:
Monday to Thursday: 08.00 to 12.00 and 13.00 to 16.00
Friday: 08.00 to 12.00 and 13.00 to 15.00

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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