Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Maud Elizabeth Steane
In memory of:
Second Radio Officer Maud Elizabeth Steane
August 14, 1944
Piombiono, Italy
Military Service
28
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
DS Viggo Hansteen (Washington DC)
Additional Information
July 11, 1916
Toronto, Ontario
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.
Commemorated on Page 233 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY
Italy
VI. C. 2.
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
Digital Collection
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Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Photo of Maude Elizabeth Steane – From the Toronto Star August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Photo of Maude Elizabeth Steane – Photo CFB Esquimalt Naval & Military Museum -
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Newspaper Clipping – Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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Ribbon Cutting Ceremony -
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Memorial Plaque – Second Radio Officer Steane is also commemorated on a memorial plaque affixed to a new eight sided old-fashioned bandstand in Veteran's Park in Langford, British Columbia. The plaque was unveiled by ex-merchant mariner Tom Osborne and Barbara Duncan on May 19, 2002 as a bugler sounded Reveille. It is believed to be the first war memorial anywhere in the world dedicated to women merchant mariners who died at their posts in the two world wars. -
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Grave marker
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