STIEBEL, John Edward

Rank: 
Captain
Unit / Base: 
40RM Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Marines
Service: 
Royal Navy
Died : 
Saturday, July 17, 1943
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age: 
22
Cemetery/Memorial: 
On 24 February 1942 Lieutenant John Stiebel joined the RM Commando from HMS Nelson. Captain Stiebel died during operations in Sicily whilst aboard the HMS Queen Emma during an enemy air attack on the vessel. Son of Major Charles Alexander Stiebel and Berthe Stiebel; husband of Edith E. Stiebel, of Countess Wear, Devon.
 
Sources
CWGC.
RM Commando War Diary / National Archives file ADM 202/87.
 
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