The Association has learned of the death of Lt Cdr Philip Steele Foulds DCS RCNR on 18 April 2018.
Taken from The Windsor Star
FOULDS, Philip Steele, DSC
Lieutenant-Commander
Royal Canadian Navy (R)
1918 – 2017
Phil passed away at St. Michael’s Hospital on Tuesday, April 18 after a very short illness. Predeceased in 2013 by Louise (Matthew), his cherished wife of 71 years, and by his brother Kenneth in 1998, he is survived by brother Derek, daughter Barbara Selley (David), grandson Chris Selley, and many Foulds and Strickland nieces and nephews, and their children. Born and raised in Toronto, Phil was educated at Upper Canada College and Trinity College at the University of Toronto, playing hockey for both. He enjoyed many summers at the family cottage on Go Home Bay. In World War II, he served with distinction as a pilot in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm, logging 761 hours in Swordfish, Albacores and Avengers. Phil and Louise met at Trinity and were engaged before his deployment in 1940. When he was on leave in 1941, they were married in Louise’s hometown of Kingsville where they eventually settled in the Matthew family farmhouse. Phil worked from 1948 to 1983 for Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts in Windsor, where he specialized in long-range planning, a role for which he was perfectly suited. He was the most organised person imaginable, each step of any activity meticulously described and scheduled. In the mid-1990s, Phil and Louise moved to Toronto to be closer to family members, living first at The Old Mill Towers, and, since 2012, at The Dunfield Retirement Residence. Lea Livelo, their unfailingly kind and empathetic friend and helper, was invaluable in their final years. We will gather to remember and honour Phil, an always courteous, kind, thoughtful and brave gentleman, at the Morley Bedford Funeral Home, 159 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto (2 stoplights west of Yonge Street), on Saturday April 29 at 2 p.m. No flowers, please. If you wish to remember him with a donation, please consider organizations that assist military veterans or merchant mariners, or the St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation
From Records
Phil served with 789 NAS in 1942, was Senior Pilot of 796 NAS in 1943 and Senior Pilot of 856 NAs 1944 – 45.
From References *
Flying Fairey Albacore T9164 of 796 Squadron on 25 May 1943, whilst conducting ALT (Aerial Light Torpedo (Attack)), the engine failed and the aircraft ditched. Lt P S Foulds RCN, Lt L C Kingswood and LA W Elston all saved by Hawkins.
**Serving on HMS Premier an Escort Carrier Commissioned into the RN in November 1943.
London Gazette 17 April 1945 – for minelaying and attacks on an enemy convoy off Norway
TLt Philip Steele FOULDS RCNVR awarded DSC
*Fleet Air Arm Aircraft 1939 to 1945 by Ray Sturtivant with Mick Burrow
**Seedie’s List of Fleet Air Arm Awards 1939 – 1969