• Title
  Watson Augustus Steel III, ca. 1873 / photographer William Nelson, Bathurst
• Creator
  William Nelson
• Call number
  P1/1652
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1873
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  898025
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 photographic print - carte de visite - 10.2 x 6.3 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Watson Augustus Steel was born near Bathurst in 1861 and worked as an officer in the Bank of New South Wales at Temora before being transferred to Bungendore. Although his offer to serve in the Sudan war of 1885 was refused, he instead assisted with the raising of a local corps known as the Bungendore Corps of Southern District Reserves. He joined the corps as a private but was commissioned as a first lieutenant in November 1885. He was recalled to Sydney by the bank in 1886. Steel volunteered for service as a trooper in the Boer War in December 1899 as part of a detatchment of 25 members of the NSW Mounted Rifles destined to join 'A' Squadron, one of the first Australian units to arrive at the front. He served under Lord Roberts in the advances at Bloemfontein, Johannesburg, Pretoria and North East to the Portuguese Africa border and was awarded the Queen's South Africa medal with three clasps; Transvaal, Orange Free State and Cape Colony. He returned to Australia in January 1901 and was discharged in April. He died in June 1946.
  
  Reference:
  Biographical details from the Australian War Memorial Catalog record for Steel's service dress jacket for the 1st New South Wales Mounted Rifles
  
  Captain Watson Augustus Steel I - died 1876 aged 87 years
  His son Watson Augustus Steel II - married Ellen Jane Marion, died 1898
  His son Watson Augustus Steel III - born 1861, died 1946
  
  Reference:
  NSW Births, Deaths and Marriages. http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/ (accessed June 25, 2010)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
• General note
  
  Tansferred from P1/Steel, W. A. III (BM), June 2010
  Digital order no:a4363052
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "About 1874, Watson Augustus Steel (III) son of Watson Augustus Steel, of Rockley, NSW., & grandson of Capt. Watson Augustus Steel of Rockley, NSW. Taken at Bathurst, NSW, circa 1873" -- in ink on the reverse
  
  Photographer's stamp
• Name
  Steel, Watson Augustus, 1861-1946
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  portraits
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3281117

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