F W A Steele (Old Melburnians War Service)
He was appointed a Lieutenant in the Australian Field Artillery in 1905, then went to England, where he passed into the British Army in 1907. He went with 2 Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, to Jubbulpore, in India, in 1910, and returned to Australia on leave in 1913. On returning to England he transferred to 4 Battalion, and was stationed in the Isle of Wight. He left England for France with his regiment on 23 August 1914, the first day of the Battle of Mons, and was wounded a few weeks later. On his return to the front he was killed at the First Ypres Battle on 29 October 1914. His Commanding Officer’s wife wrote to Steele’s mother: