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Arthur Creighton Steele

1879-1953

Unit

1st Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1666

About

Born in New Zealand

14 July 1879
Parents

Mother

Margaret Speele

Father

Leslie Speele
Residence

Hometown

Auckland
Work

Occupation

Labourer
Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal ribbon

British War Medal

Victory Medal ribbon

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 74

31 December 1953

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau.

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5553 63/0108773, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 7.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Arthur Creighton Steele (1879-1953)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/801

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