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This profile is taken from a photo which appears in Windsock Datafile No.70 of Martinsyde 7472 after being recaptured from the Turkish Army. Lieutenant N. Steele was shot down by anti-aircraft fire on the 20th of April 1917. Lieutenant Steele was part of a five aircraft operation of two Martinsydes and three BE aircraft led by Captain R. Williams to bomb assembling Turkish Cavalry at Hareira.Steele was wounded and forced to land, dying of his wounds soon after. The profile shows the aircraft at recapture bearing the Ottoman Air Service markings of the black rectangle. |