BORN HULL 1895. SON OF ABSALOM STEELS & MOTHER JANE ANN (RAFTON), OF 8 LIVERPOOL STREET, HULL. EMPLOYED AS A GAS FITTER, BY THE BRITISH GAS LIGHT COMPANY, HULL.
ENLISTED HULL. SERVED WITH THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 05/11/1916. REPORTED MISSING IN HULL DAILY MAIL, 05/1/1916. *
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE BRITISH GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY WW1 MEMORIAL, WHICH IS KEPT AT THE FAKENHAM GAS MUSEUM, NORFOLK.
First name:
JOHN
Regiment:
Military Number:
30914
Rank:
Private
Date Died
05/11/1916
Place died:
Guards' Cemetery, Lesboeufs, Somme, France
Age:
21
