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Private Thomas Bond Steel

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PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date of birth: 1880-04-23
Place of birth: York Yorkshire England
Next of kin: Agnes Jane Steel, mother. 1 Vicarage Park, Antrim Road, Belfast, Ireland
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): Musician
Religion: Presbyterian
Date of death: 1917-11-10
Cause of death: Killed in action
Buried: Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial, Panel 18 - 28 - 30

MILITARY INFORMATION

Regimental number: 660
Highest Rank: Private (7th Battalion)
Rank detail

Private, 7th Battalion, Infantry (Army).

Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
Battle wounded/killed: Passchendaele
Commemoration location: Menin Gate

Images

Thomas Bond Steel as Trumpeter in King's Dragoon Guards, South Africa 1901., T.B. Steel served with the K.D.G. first as a band boy and then trumpeter. He left the regiment in 1906 as a lance-corporal to emigrate to Canada.
Thomas Bond Steel as Trumpeter in King's Dragoon Guards, South Africa 1901., T.B. Steel served with the K.D.G. first as a band boy and t…

RESEARCH INFORMATION

CVWM ID: No CVWM ID in our database, but try this.
CWGC ID: 1596258
LAC ID: 248926
Attestation record(s): image 1, image 2
Service file: B9254-S006
Uploader's Notes:

R.T. Elliott, K.C., of Victoria, B.C., was the founder of Elliott’s Horse - a 'freelance' cavalry unit, composed almost entirely of seasoned veterans, raised in Victoria in the early days of the Great War [1914].

Elliott's Horse was composed of 5 officers and 78 men. The unit departed Victoria on Oct. 23 for Vancouver, then travelled across Canada by train to Montreal, arriving Oct. 29, where they boarded SS Letitia on Oct. 31 bound for Glasgow, Scotland. Arriving there Nov. 9 they then travelled to London. On Nov. 17 the unit entrained for Salisbury Plain where they were welcomed by the Royal Canadian Dragoons and Lord Strathcona's Horse.

15th Jan 1915 transferred to R.C.D., September 1917 transferred to 3 Coy, 7th Battalion.

Uploader's Research notes: Previous service in South Africa with Kings Dragoon Guards. Joined Royal Canadian Dragoons in WW1 but transferred to the infantry in October 1917, 3rd Coy, 7th Bn British Columbia Regt.
[Private Army Canadian Infantry 7th Battalion ]

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2021-04-12