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Corporal WILLIAM G. STEEL

Service Number: D/81091
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 25 July 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

IV. C. 8.

France

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Awards Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of William and Jane Patterson Steel, of Montreal, Province of Quebec; husband of Dora Winifred Steel, of Montreal.
  • Personal Inscription GOD MADE HIM A LITTLE LOWER THAN ANGELS, CROWNED HIM WITH GLORY AND HONOUR
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Buried or commemorated at

BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2960
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