8th Battalion
Killed In Action
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William Hamlet Steele (SN 4889) was born in Ballarat where he attended St. Patrick’s College. He was a tailor, aged 24, when he enlisted on July 12th 1915. He joined the 8th Infantry Battalion and embarked from Melbourne in March 1916 on board the Wiltshire, reaching France in June. In June 1917 he suffered an accidental gunshot wound that caused his evacuation to hospital in England. He returned to France in August but on October 4th 1917 he was killed in action at Passchendaele Ridge. With no known grave his name is recorded on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.
