 | Lieutenant Owen William Steele of the Newfoundland Regiment Subjects: Steele Owen William; World War 1914–1918 -- Personal narratives Newfoundland; Great Britain Army Newfoundland Regiment -- Biography; Lieutenant Owen William Steele volunteered for the famed Newfoundland Regiment in late summer 1914. His war diary, begun as he embarked for England, relates the experiences of his regiment: training on Salisbury Plain and in Scotland, baptism of fire at Gallipoli, recuperation in Egypt, and, finally, the battlefields of France. Along the way his sense of adventure turns to a growing weariness with war, a desire to return home, and an underlying hope that he will survive. His diary ends twenty-two months later on the eve of the Battle of the Somme at Beaumont Hamel, a few days before his death. |
