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Robert Menzies Steele
Military Details
Service Number: 46025
Regiment & Unit / Ship
20th Cheshire Regiment
Awards and Medals
The Victory Medal
The British War Medal, 1914-18
Enlistment Details
Residence at Enlistment
George Street, Whitehaven
Rank at Enlistment
Pte.
Battalion at Enlistment
20th
Service Number at Enlistment
46025
Service History
He is believed to have died on the day he reported sick at the field hospital in Gezaincourt. His personal belongings were returned to his wife by a friend who was with him when he died.
Personal Details
Date of Birth
5 March 1878
Place of Birth
Plumpton,Penrith,Cumbria
Religion
Presbyterian
Address
160 Ennerdale Road , Cleator Moor
Residence (Roll of Honour)
160 Ennerdale Road , Cleator Moor
Parents
Inspector James Steele & late Charlotte Steele living at Cleator Moor
Siblings
James, Thomas, Janet
Married
Jane Steele (Nee Thompson )
Children
Charlotte Menzies Steele
Remarriage of Widow
1922
Education and Occupation
Occupation
Insurance salesman
Work Address
Whitehaven
Death and Memorial
Date of Death
21st January 1917
Age at Death
38
Circumstances of Death
Died of Illness ( Influenza)
Place of Death
Gezaincourt, Picardie,
Theater of Action
France
Regiment at Death
Cheshire Regiment
Battalion/Vessel at Death
20th
Rank at Death
Pte
Notes
Roberts father James Steele was Inspector of Police in Cleator Moor in the pre war era . Robert was well-known as a strong swimmer who used to swim between the two piers in Whitehaven. He also rowed in the Towns lifeboat
Buried or Commemorated at
GEZAINCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Grave Position: II. E. 15.
Private Memorial: Robert is recorded on his father’s gravestone in the cemetery at St Johns Church Cleator Moor and on the War Memorial in the churchyard
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