A ]leather] bound album with gold lettering on front cover which says: 1st Canadian Command Depot. Shorncliffe. Photos. On the inside cover is an added printed inscription which reads: "to Major-Gen. Sir S.B. Steele, K.C.M.G., C.B., M.V.O. With the Compliments of Lieut. Col. A.E. Myalt & Offficers 1st C.C.D. Shorncliffe". In pencil is added March 1918. On the inside back cover is printed: 'Photographs by Lambert Weston, Folkestone'
Lambert Weston Ltd..Handwritten letter to Marie from Edward Hilliam writing from Salisbury and sharing general news and congratulating SBS on his promotion.
Hilliam, Edward, Brigadier-General, 1865-1949Typewritten note to accompany snapshots (not with letter); dated May 12th, 1915.
Steele, Marie (de Lotbinière Harwood), 1859-1951Typewritten copy of a poem about SBS recited at a Patriotic Concert by Spencer Wiggin and written by Fred Yates; the poem was sent to Marie from Mr. Wiggin.
Steele, Marie (de Lotbinière Harwood), 1859-1951Typewritten letter inviting Marie to attend a special event (a presentation from Princess Louise to the Canadian Forces in England);the letter is dated July 3, 1916.
Steele, Marie (de Lotbinière Harwood), 1859-1951A program for an event titled "Unveiling of Memorial Tablets to Engineering Graduates and Engineering Students of the University of Manitoba who gave their lives in the Great War." Dated Friday, April 4, 1924. Includes a list of names appearing on the tablets.
University of ManitobaPhotograph of soldiers on horseback, lined up in formation on a field in Edmonton, Alberta.
A series of picture postcards depicting life in a World War I era military training camp, previously known as Camp Sewell, in the vicinity of Carberry, Manitoba.
[The Great War Veterans’ Association of Canada (Winnipeg Branch)]. Year Book 1919. Winnipeg: The Great War Veterans’ Association of Canada, [1920]. (includes an article titled: Major-General Sir Samuel Benfield Steele, K.C.M.G., C.B., M.V.O.” written by Harwood Steele)
Steele, HarwoodAn Instructor. Rapid Training of Recruits: A Practical Scheme. London: Gale & Polden, Ltd., 1916. (missing spine, unattached front cover)
Steele, Samuel B. (Samuel Benfield), 1848-1919Aylmer, F.J. Protection in War. The Pall Mall Military Series. London: Hugh Rees Ltd., 1912. (signed by S.B.S.)
Steele, Samuel B. (Samuel Benfield), 1848-1919Bennett-Goldney, Francis. The First Arrivals of Wounded at Folkestone Pier and the Early Importance and Developments of the Bevan Military Hospital at Sandgate. London: William Clowes and Sons. Limited, 191[7]. (inscribed on front cover: ‘For dear Mrs. Steele with love from the Authors Francis Bennett-Goldney June 1917’)
Steele, Marie (de Lotbinière Harwood), 1859-1951Birchall, A.P. Rapid Training of a Company for War. London: Gale & Polden Limited, 1914. (inscribed “with the author’s compliments Jan. 1915”)
Steele, Samuel B. (Samuel Benfield), 1848-1919Delme-Radcliffe, C. and J.W. Lewis. A Territorial Army in Being: A Practical Study of the Swiss Militia. London: John Murray, 1908.
Steele, Samuel B. (Samuel Benfield), 1848-1919Haking, R.C.B. Staff Rides and Regimental Tours. London: Hugh Rees, Limited, 1908. (signed by S.B.S with name and title)
Steele, Samuel B. (Samuel Benfield), 1848-1919Hornby, M.L. How to March. Gale & Polden’s Military Series. London: Hugh Rees, Ltd., 1915.
Steele, Samuel B. (Samuel Benfield), 1848-1919Kennedy, H.G. ed. History of the 101st Regiment Edmonton Fusiliers: Allied with the royal Munster Fusiliers 1908-1913. [Edmonton]: Pierce & Kennedy, 191[4]. (burgundy vinyl cover inscribed in gold lettering’ Col. S.B. Steele, C.B., M.V.O. D.O.C., M.D. NO. 10 Fort Osborne Barracks Winnipeg Compliments Lieut.-Colonel W.F.W. Carstairs)
Steele, Samuel B. (Samuel Benfield), 1848-1919Minister of Militia and Defence. The King’s Regulations and Orders for The Canadian Militia. Ottawa: Department of Militia and Defence, 1917.
Steele, Samuel B. (Samuel Benfield), 1848-1919Monsenergue, Colonel. Translated by E. Louis Spiers. Cavalry Tactical Schemes: A Series of Practical Exercises for Cavalry. The Pall Mall Military Series. London: Hugh Rees, Ltd., 1914. (inscribed ‘Major Genl Steele C.B., M.V.O. [OC] with very kind regards from F. Bennett [Goldney] Aug 1915, Shornclyffe’)
Steele, Samuel B. (Samuel Benfield), 1848-1919Pollard, W.D.J. Skeleton Operation Orders. London: Hugh Rees, Ltd., 1913. (signed by ‘S.B. Steele, Major Gen Comg Shorncliffe, Kent’)
Steele, Samuel B. (Samuel Benfield), 1848-1919Pope, E.W. The Canadian Officer’s Guide to the Study of Military Law. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1916. (an inscription at the front of the book reads: ‘To Major Gen’l S.B. Steele C.B. M.V.O. from E.W. Pope 31 July 1916’)
Steele, Samuel B. (Samuel Benfield), 1848-1919United States Army. War Department. Office of the Chief of Staff. Field Service Regulations. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1914. (stamped on inside cover: “With Compliments of Provincial Library Manitoba)
Steele, Samuel B. (Samuel Benfield), 1848-1919