The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Second Lieutenant A C J Steele

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Second Lieutenant  Alfred Charles John STEELE, 1st  Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, 23rd August 1918.

1886, born Dorchester, Dorset, son of Emma J Steele.

1910 September, Wandsworth Registration District, married Doris Esther Everitt, of 50, Pleasance Road, Roehampton Estate, Putney, London.

1911 Census - 2 Tregarvon Road, North Side, Clapham Common, London SW - Alfred Steele. head, age 24, married, engineers clerk, Motor Engineering, worker, born Dorchester, Dorset; Doris Steele, wife, age 21, married under one year, children, none, born Wellingboro, Northants.

Corporal / Sergeant Royal Army Medical Corps, Service No.19982.

12th September 1914, posted BEF.

Freemasons Register - 1st March 1916, Initiation, Lodge of Temperance, passing 5th April, Raising 3rd September 1917, Alfred Charles John Steele, age 29, Clapham Common, Sergeant RAMC.

29th August 1917, Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Royal West Kent Regiment.

Widow - Mrs Doris Esther Steele, 172 Clarence Street, Bolton, Manchester.

27th May 1919, Probate - Alfred Charles John Steele, of 137 Taybridge Road, Clapham Common, Surrey, Second Lieutenant, Royal West Kent Regiment died 23rd August 1918, in France. Administration London 27th May to Doris Esther Steele, widow. Effects £50.

Buried at Adanac Military Cemetery, III. C. 10., Miraumont, France.

London Gazette 9th October 1917.

The under mentioned Warrant and N.C.O.'s to be 2nd Lieutenants -  29th Aug. 1917 :

Royal West Kent Regiment - Serjt. Alfred Charles John Steele, from R.A.M.C.