Strathcona's Horse cadets at a camp in Lower Fort Garry, ca. 1911. On verso, Harwood writes that the boy about to shoot is Jack Mitchell, later Captain, who was recommended for the Victoria Cross when killed in late 1918. The boys are sitting on a grassy field in front of tents.
Samuel Benfield Steele was born at Purbrook, Medonte, County Simcoe, Ontario on 5 January 1848 to Captain Elmes Steele and Anne MacIan Macdonald. His father served under Nelson and other Admirals in the Napoleonic Wars, moving to Canada in 1832, with his first wife and family. After the death of his first wife, Captain Steele married Sam's mother, and they had six children, Sam being the eldest.
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