Forenames

Thomas Lancaster AWMM

Surname

Steele AWMM

Service number

WWI 7/1138 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Address before enlistment

235 Papanui Road, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

A.W. Steele (father), 235 Papanui Road, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 13 Jun 1915 AWMM Single/WWI AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

• Army AWMM
• Air Force AWMM

Service number

WWI 7/1138 AWMM

Military service

New Zealand Machine Gun Corps AWMM

Medals and Awards

• Military Cross (MC) AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM

Enlistment

WW1

Embarkation details

WW1 13 Jun 1915-01 Aug 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 25 AWMM Vessel was Tahiti AWMM Trooper AWMM Canterbury Mounted Rifles AWMM 5th Reinforcements AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
Took off from Ramleh, Palestine on board a Nieuport 17 B3594 for a offensive patrol with three others. The plane was bought down behnd enemy lines near Nablus, about 50KM NW of the Red Sea, folllowing a combat with eight or nine enemy fighters and a two seater. AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Second Lieutenant AWMM
Royal Air Force, No. 111 Squadron AWMM

Attended Waitaki Boys' High School, Oamaru. AWMM

Death

• 10 Apr 1918 AWMM
• 31 Oct 1890 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

• Jerusalem Memorial, Jerusalem War Cemetery, Israel AWMM
• Waitaki Boys' High School Roll of Honour WWI 1914-1918 AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7820964
  Further Reference
• Powles, C.G. (Ed). (1928). History of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-19. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
  https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20210315175255/http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1CMRi-t1-body.html
  Further Reference

References

• McDonald, W. (2013). Honours and Awards to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War, 1914-1918. (3rd ed.). Hamilton, N.Z.: Richard Stowers.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Page No: 689
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 2: Includes portrait
• Powles, C.G. (Ed). (1928). History of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-19. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Luxford, J. (1923). With the machine gunners in France and Palestine. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• McDonald, K. C. (1958). A history of Waitaki Boys’ High School, 1883-1958. Christchurch [N.Z.] : Whitcombe and Tombs.
• HMNZT 25. The Tahitian tatler : the unofficial organ of that portion of the Fifth Reinforcements on board H.M.N.Z.T. no. 25, Tahiti. (1915). Bombay, India: Printed by the Times Press for the Units of the Fifth New Zealand Reinforcements.