LEE-STEERE, Charles Augustus
| Service Number: | 90129 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Flying Officer |
| Last Unit: | No. 601 Squadron (RAF) |
| Born: | Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 1911 |
| Home Town: | Toodyay, Toodyay, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Hale School (Perth), St Peters College (Adelaide), Oxford University |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed In Action, Belgium, 29 May 1940 |
| Cemetery: |
Oostkerke Communal Cemetery Grave 9 |
| Memorials: | Hackney St Peter's College WW2 Honour Roll, Wembley Downs Hale School Honour Roll 2, Wembley Downs Hale School Memorial Grove |
World War 2 Service
| 27 May 1940: | Involvement Royal Air Force , Flying Officer, 90129, No. 601 Squadron (RAF) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Ernest Augustus and Bridget Yelverton Lee Steere; husband of Patience Hargreaves Lee Steere, of Ockley, Surrey.
While working on the family estate in Surrey he joined the Royal Auxilliary AirForce.
Posted to number 601 City of London Squadron.
Posted as missing while covering the British Army's retreat toward Dunkirk in 1940
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Flying Officer Charles Lee Steere, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Lee Steere, of Perth, is presumed to have been killed. He was reported missing last June, and now an Air Ministry casualty list gives the assumption of his death. His wife in England, writing to Perth, says he is believed to have been brought down in Belgium dining the retreat to Dunkirk. Flying Officer Lee Steere was 29.
He was educated at Hale School (Perth), St. Peter's College (Adelaide), and Oxford.
He joined the Auxiliary Air Force while at Oxford, and received a commission in the R.A.F. three months before he was missing.
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