Steele, Robert Crawford
Killed in Action 1917-08-31
Birth Date: unkown date
Born: Enniskillen, Ontario
John Steele & Ellen Mary Crawford
Home: Birch Creek, Saskatchewan. (homesteaded there)
Enlistment: Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment Date: 1915-07-25
Decorations: DSO, MiD
Service
RFC
Unit
111 (F) Sqn- Squadron (RFC)
Base
Palestine
Rank
2nd-Lieutenant
Position
2nd-Lieutenant
Service Numbers
First Burial
Royal Oak Burial Park Cemetery, Victoria, B.C.
1917-08-31: Flt. Cmdr. with 111 Sqn, Egypt, in hospital.1918-07-04: embarked Alexandria for England on the ship HT Kaiser-i-HindS.F. Wise, in 'Canadian Airmen of the First World War' notes that Steele died in March 1918 in Egypt. However, info from multiple web sites has him as a WWI survivor who died in 1958.