Item 2008.1.3.3.6.2.86 - Canadian Infantry in the front line trenches, ca. 1915

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Canadian Infantry in the front line trenches, ca. 1915

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    2008.1.3.3.6.2.86

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    • [ca. 1915] (Creation)

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    2 photographs : b&w ; 11 x 16 cm (one copy glued in photograph album) Album: Box 164-19

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    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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      Photograph is a duplicate from an album of photographs of "Canadians in France". Appears to be part of a series of photographs taken of battle fronts in France and Belgium. Harwood Steele refers to the photographs as: "Canadians in France" (for possible use in his book?)

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      On verso is written: "Happy Warriors. Canadian Infantry in the front line trenches. The man on the left is a sentry with boyonet fixed. The thigh-boots are a winter necessity. Note the respirators."

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