View source for Steel John Watson Sapper 14748416

{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Steel John Watson
|Army number=14748416.
|Rank=Sapper
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards
|Date of birth=Born 25/2/1926.
|Age=(At time of death) 19.
|Unit=Enlisted in the General Staff Corps.  Underwent Basic Training at a Primary Training Centre.  Transferred to the Corps of Royal Engineers.  Posted to 294th Field Company, Royal Engineers.   Served Normandy.  KILLED in ACTION 13/4/1945.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Details awaited.
|Joined Brigade=Not yet known.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not so far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=KILLED in ACTION 13/4/1945.  Interred initially in ?  Re-buried in Grave 2. E. 5. Uden War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads : "THERE WILL BE NO PARTING WHEN WE MEET OUR LOVED ONE ON THAT ETERNAL SHORE".
|Home address=Son of Matthew (1893 - 1966) and Robina Merrilees Steel (1894 - 1966) of Dalbeattie, Kirkcubrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway. 
|Image Name=Sapper_John_Watson_Steel_294th_Fd_Coy.jpg
|image Title=CWGC Headstone - Sapper John Watson Steel, 294th Field Company, RE.
}}

Some information on this Page has been extracted from the Commemorative Booklet, prepared by Major Langley, covering the period from D-Day to VE Day in addition to that extracted from the War Diaries.  There are issues around the possible duplication of names which remain to be clarified.