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Military service
Service number:
888343
Age:
28
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
15th Battalion
Birth:
December 18, 1888
Armadale, Linlithgow, Scotland
Death:
August 16, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Jennet Steen, Bjorkdale, Saskatchewan.
Digital gallery of Private Robert Steen
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Badge
Cap Badge 15th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) CEF submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman on behalf of 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH Private steen originally enlisted with the 188th Bn before transfer to the 15th Bn. -
Shoulder patch
Shoulder Patch 15th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) CEF submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman on behalf of 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH Private steen originally enlisted with the 188th Bn before transfer to the 15th Bn. -
Badge
Cap Badge 188th Bn. Pte Steen originally enlisted with this unit but was sent to the 15th Bn as a reinforcement. Submitted by Capt (ret'd) V. Goldman 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Record of Service
Record of Service Card (Front side). From archives 48th Highlanders of Canada Regimental Museum. Submitted by 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Record of Service
Record of Service Card (Reverse side). From archives 48th Highlanders of Canada Regimental Museum. Submitted by 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Badge
Cap Badge 96th Bn (Canadian Highlanders from Saskatoon). Private Steen enlisted with the 188th Bn (another Sask unit)but was sent to the 96th Bn and then to the 15th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) as a reinforcement. Submitted by Capt(ret’d) Victor Goldman 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Memorial
"The Hill 70 memorial, erected by the 15th Battalion Memorial Project and the town of Benifontaine, was unveiled and dedicated on 22 September 2012. The memorial commemorates the actions of the 15th Battalion CEF, which was on the extreme left flank of the Canadian assault on Hill 70, on 15 August 1917 and the memory of those members of the Battalion who fell during the engagement. The memorial sits on what was then known as Bois Hugo, which the Battalion assaulted, captured and held against repeated German counterattacks." Photo submitted by the 15th Battalion Memorial Project Team. Dileas Gu Brath -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Steen
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Steen
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Steen
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Steen
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Steen
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Steen
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Steen
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Steen
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 331 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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