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Capt. Oswald Leslie Jennings Steel

Australian Imperial Force 14th Bde. Australian Field Artillery

from:Bowral, New South Wales

(d.6th Aug 1917)

Captain Oswald Steel served with the 14th Brigade, Australian Field Artillery AIF during WW1 and was killed in action on the 6th August 1917, aged 33. He is buried in Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery in Belgium. Son of Oswald Gleghorn Steel and Elizabeth Ann Steel; Husband of Bertha Steel, of Mapleton, Victoria St., Bowral, New South Wales. Native of Wallsend, New South Wales.

Additional Information:

The Sydney Morning Herald Wed. 22 Aug 1917:

Steel - Killed in action in France, August 6, 1917. Captain Oswald Leslie Jennines Steel, deeply loved husband of Bertha Amy Steel, Wharekos, King's Way. Cronulla and loving father of Beryl, Neville, and Geoff, eldest son of Mr and Mrs O. G. Steel. Walls- end, late science master of Albury District SchooL "Greater love hath no man."

Steel.- Killed In action In France. August 6, Capt. O. L. J. Steel beloved husband of B. Steel, Cronulla , and elder son of O. G. and E. A. Steel. Wallsend

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