Arthur Steans

Forenames

Arthur AWMM

Surname

Steans AWMM

Also known as

Arthur Steans AWMM

Service number

WWI 8/4033 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Next of kin

A. Steans (father), Dee Street, Invercargill, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 8/4033 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Engineer/Military AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 04 Mar 1916-08 Apr 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 47 or HMNZT 48 AWMM Vessel was Willochra or Tofua AWMM Private AWMM 10th Reinforcements, Otago Infantry Battalion, D Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Otago Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion AWMM

• Son of Arthur and Louisa Steans, of Invercargill, New Zealand. Prestigously wounded on the Somme, 18th Sept., 1916. AWMM
• Apologies their Grandfather was Alpheus Steans brother to Frank Alpheus Steans.
  Public - Shirley - Other relative - 26 April 2024 - Family papers
• Arthur and William were both sons of Arthur and Louisa Steans. Their grandfather was Frank Alpheus Steans.
  Public - Shirley - Other relative - 25 April 2024 - Family papers

Death

13 Oct 1917 AWMM
Age  20 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

White House Cemetery Ieper West Vlaanderen Belgium AWMM III. P. 12. AWMM

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7820845
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/454999/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/454999
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/7998
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• Macdonald, L. (1978). Passchendaele : the story of the third Battle of Ypres 1917. London : Penguin Books.
• Harper, G. (2000). Massacre at Passchendaele : the New Zealand story. Auckland, N.Z.: HarperCollins.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  26: 19
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Byrne, A. E. Official History of the Otago Regiment, NZEF in the Great War, 1914–1918. Dunedin: J. Wilkie, 1921.