Personnel Index - Detail

Name
STEELE
First Names
John Anthony
Rank
Sgt
Service
RAF
Service Number
1209183
Crew Position
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
PoW Camp(s)
-
Age
19
Date of Death
16/02/1942
Cemetery

 

Photographed by Malcolm Brooke
Part of the panel at Runnymede
 

The Runnymede image was created by artist Paul Reid using photographs taken by Jo Cockburn and Malcolm Brooke

16/17 February, 1942; MINELAYING/LEAFLETS:

No 5 Group dispatched 37 Hampdens and 12 Manchesters to plant mines off the Frisians. The 14 aircraft dispatched by 49 Squadron carried out their duties with mixed success.
From the minelaying force, 1 Hampden and 1 Manchester failed to return; the Hampden was C-Charlie from 49 Squadron. It is presumed that F/O Gordon Jenkins (AT124) and crew came down in the North Sea.
The bodies of this unfortunate crew have never been recovered.

Hampden AT124 (EA-C)
F/O G.R. Jenkins Pilot (Missing)
P/O J.T.B. Clough NAV (Missing)
Sgt J.A. Steele W/AG (Missing)
Sgt J.A. Woodroffe W/AG (Missing)