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Lance Corporal HARRY WILLIAM STEER

Service Number: 32744
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Warwickshire Regiment

15th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 06 October 1917

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GODEWAERSVELDE BRITISH CEMETERY

I. F. 14.

France

PM with added Gallipoli Marker ( Some weathering to marker)

Photographer: Peter Eastman

PM with added Gallipoli Marker ( Some weathering to marker)

Photographer: Peter Eastman

Good (One for a clean)

Photographer: Peter Eastman

PM, beginning to fade and sink. Looking scruffy, one to watch

Photographer: Peter Eastman

PM, beginning to fade and sink. Looking scruffy, one to watch

Photographer: Peter Eastman

Good

Photographer: Peter Eastman

PM, commemorated on kerbing, some lettering missing, one to watch

Photographer: Peter Eastman

Good

Photographer: Peter Eastman

PM, granite memorial, lettering fading. NOTE: Also mentioned is casualty Frederick James Fletcher RN KIA 17 Sept 1940 ( Brother in law ) who is remembered by CWGC on Chatham Naval memorial. One to watch

Photographer: Peter Eastman

PM, granite memorial, lettering fading. NOTE: Also mentioned is casualty Frederick James Fletcher RN KIA 17 Sept 1940 ( Brother in law ) who is remembered by CWGC on Chatham Naval memorial. One to watch

Photographer: Peter Eastman

PM Letters Missing / Fading. One to watch

Photographer: Peter Eastman

CAS ID 2421823

Photographer: UKNA

Pink Marble P/M now becoming almost illegible

Photographer: Peter Eastman

Good

Photographer: Peter Eastman

PM, Starting to lean. ( One for a clean? and light gardening to remove the encroaching ivy) Legible

Photographer: Peter Eastman

PM, Starting to lean. ( One for a clean? and light gardening to remove the encroaching ivy) Legible

Photographer: Peter Eastman

CWGC Database shows date of death as 16 December 1940, but memorial shows 14 December 1940, and name is not in full.

Photographer: Peter Eastman

Good

Photographer: Peter Eastman

PM, Very Faded inscription, one to watch

Photographer: Peter Eastman

Good, some low level garden splatter but all legible

Photographer: Peter Eastman

Good

Photographer: Peter Eastman

Good

Photographer: Peter Eastman

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Emily Steer, of Rose Villa, Slough Rd., Datchet, Bucks.
  • Personal Inscription HE SUFFERED AND DIED HEROICALLY FOR ALL WHOM HE LOVED
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Buried or commemorated at

GODEWAERSVELDE BRITISH CEMETERY
Nord France
Number of casualties: 991
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