Notes
The Roll lists his address as 53 High Street, Old Fletton.
(CWGC records that Private W. Steels, regimental number 24798, died aged 23 on 3/7/1917 serving in the 1st Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, and is buried in grave II.B.26 at Crump Trench British Cemetery at Fampoux in France. They record him as the son of Robert and Harriett Steels of 53 High Street, Old Fletton, Peterborough. On the 1911 census William had been living with his parents Harriet and Robert at 53 High Street, Old Fletton, Peterborough; William was stated to be aged 17, and to have been born in Woodston. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that William had served in the Hunts Cyclist Battalion under regimental number 1669 before joining the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his father Robert was his legatee).