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Good Morning Everyone.....

I picked this group up at the Calgary Show and have gone through FMP and Martin Cassidy's book and cannot find anything..... I was also able to go to Ancestry on a free weekend and again I could find nothing, maybe I am doing something wrong......

Can anyone help or put me on a right track.....

Q.S.A. - 3207 Private W. J. Steele, 1st Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
1915 Star - 22110 Company Quartermaster Sergeant W. Steele, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Pair - 22110 Warrant Officer Class 2, W. Steele, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
L.S.G.C. George V - 1532 Company Sergeant Major W. J. Steele, Royal Irish Regiment

Any assistance greatly appreciated.......

Mike

Two MICs to start you off plus roll. May be worth using Belfast records.

ATB
David

Thank You David......

Mike

A very complete set of papers is extant in WO364, William James Steele was an eighteen year old labourer and a serving Militiaman in the 4th Royal Irish Rifles when he joined the "Lumps" on the 13th of May 1890, after an interesting initial period of service, which included actual Foreign Service, he transferred to the reserve on the 24th of April 1898, recalled to the Colours on the 9th of October 1899, he served in South Africa during the Anglo Boer War from the 5th of November 1899 until the 4th of March the following year, he would go on to see further service in South Africa as part of the garrison, after Vereeniging, certainly a most interesting man.

QSAMIKE wrote: Good Morning Everyone.....

I picked this group up at the Calgary Show and have gone through FMP and Martin Cassidy's book and cannot find anything..... I was also able to go to Ancestry on a free weekend and again I could find nothing, maybe I am doing something wrong......

Can anyone help or put me on a right track.....

Q.S.A. - 3207 Private W. J. Steele, 1st Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
1915 Star - 22110 Company Quartermaster Sergeant W. Steele, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Pair - 22110 Warrant Officer Class 2, W. Steele, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
L.S.G.C. George V - 1532 Company Sergeant Major W. J. Steele, Royal Irish Regiment

Any assistance greatly appreciated.......

Mike

Thank You Frank......

I seems that Steele must be a common Irish name as when I looked in FMP there was a large number of them......

Will have to do more looking when I go to Dublin in the fall......

Mike

I think that is a particularly nice group and of the type that has become so much harder to find over the last decade, I would certainly be very pleased with it if I were you.