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Military service
Service number:
J/88922
Age:
25
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
524 Sqdn.
Death:
October 4, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 253.
Additional information
Son of Alexander Walter and Martha Rheta Steels, of London, Ontario, Canada.
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Floyd Alexander Steels joined the R.C.A.F., graduated as a Wireless Air Gunner, joined the 415 Squadron, Costal Command in England. Transferred to the 524 Squadron, Coastal Command, lost on a armed reconnaissance along the Dutch-German coast from Den Helder to Wilhelmshaven. His Wellington aircraft crew were creditied with sinking or seriously damaging seven enemy vessels. -
Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Pilot Officer Floyd Alexander Steels
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Pilot Officer Floyd Alexander Steels
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Pilot Officer Floyd Alexander Steels
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Pilot Officer Floyd Alexander Steels
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Pilot Officer Floyd Alexander Steels
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Floyd Alexander Steels
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Floyd Alexander Steels
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Pilot Officer Floyd Alexander Steels
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 451 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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