PRIVATE GEORGE E. STEELE, 5TH DORSETSHIRE REGIMENT AND 5TH BATTALION ROYAL MUNSTER FUSILIE

PRIVATE GEORGE E. STEELE, 5TH DORSETSHIRE REGIMENT AND 5TH BATTALION ROYAL MUNSTER FUSILIERS. 1914-15 Star trio (officially impressed, 13776 PTE. G.E. STEELE. DORSET. R.). Generally Good Very Fine.

Medal accompanied by copied Medal Index card, WW1 medal rolls and copied extracts from “British Regiments 1914-1918” and the “History of the Royal Munster Fusiliers”.

Medal Index card and WW1 medal rolls confirm that, although Steele originally enlisted into the Dorset Regiment, after seeing active service in Gallipoli he was attached to the 5th (Home Service) Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers. Medal Index card confirms that Steele initially saw service in the Balkans, entering that theatre of operations on 16/10/1915, landing at Mudros on 16/10/1915. The 5th (Service) Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment originally landed at Mudros on 23/7/1915, transferred to Imbros on 6/8/1915, landed at Suvla Bay on 6/8/1915 and was evacuated to Mudros and then Imbros on 16/12/1915. He is one of a large number of men on the Royal Munster Fusiliers medal roll who are recorded as having previously seen service with either the Dorsetshire Regiment or the Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, and all of whom first saw active service in the Balkan theatre of operations from 16/10/1915. These men were obviously all casualties who were transferred to the 5th Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers after being evacuated from Gallipoli.