Service Details
Name:
 STEYN
Given Name:
 JAMES HENRY
Initials:
 J H
Service No:
 42275
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Flying Officer
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force
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Date of Death:
 1941-04-13
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Age:
 23
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Anson N9857 crashed in a snowstorm in one of the most desolate areas of the highlands. Crew rest under a cairn erected by CWGC but their memorial is in the local churchyard. The crash site where the casualties are buried is in a remote location on a plateau marked by a granite memorial placed in 2013.
Decorations:
 D F C
Citations:
 LG 17 January 1941 pg. 346
Additional
Information:
Son of Henry George Arthur Steyn, and of Daisy Frances Ann Steyn (nee Cole), of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Sutherland
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Cemetery:
 INCHNADAMPH (OR KIRKTON) OLD CHURCHYARD
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Grave Reference:
 Memorial Panel.

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