Sam Steele
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 105 years ago |
Date of birth | January 5,1848 |
Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
Born | Purbrook |
Bracebridge | |
Canada | |
Date of died | January 30,1919 |
Died | Putney |
London | |
United Kingdom | |
Parents | Elmes Yelverton Steele |
Siblings | Anne Steele |
John Coucher Steele | |
Job | Soldier |
Police officer | |
Army officer | |
Books | Forty Years in Canada: Reminiscences of the Great North-West with Some Account of His Service in South Africa |
Forty Years in Canada [microform] | |
Education | Royal Military College of Canada |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 583068 |
Sam Steele Life story
Major General Sir Samuel Benfield Steele KCMG CB MVO was a distinguished Canadian soldier and police official. He was an officer of the North-West Mounted Police, most famously as head of the Yukon detachment during the Klondike Gold Rush, and commanding officer of Strathcona's Horse during the Boer War.