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Terence Allen Steele   2868123   Gordon Highlanders

DUNDEE SOLDIER SHOT

AS RESULT OF REVOLVER ACCIDENT.

Military Funeral To Balgay Cemetery.

Scenes of poignant grief were witnessed in Milnbank Road, Dundee, yesterday afternoon, when the body of Private Terence Allen Steele, 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders, was buried with military honours.

Private Steele, who was only twenty-one years of age, was well known in the Milnbank Road district.  He had done his “bit” in the recent war with his battalion.  He died tragically as a result of a revolver accident at Curragh Camp, in Ireland, and the extremely sad circumstances cast a gloom over his home and upon all his many friends both in Dundee and in the regiment to which he belonged.

The tragedy occurred at the end of last week.  Private Steele was in the canteen preparing dinner when an officer dropped a revolver in a tent fifty yards off.  The revolver struck the bedstead and went off, the bullet lodging in Steele’s stomach.  Death was almost instantaneous.

Large Crowds.

Brought over from Ireland during the week-end the body arrived in Dundee on Monday, escorted by a sergeant-major from Curragh Camp.  The funeral took place yesterday afternoon from his mother’s house at 43 Milnbank Road, and was witnessed by a large crowd.  A firing party composed of 20 men from the Black Watch, and bugler and piper from Perth, accompanied the coffin to its resting-place in Balgay Cemetery.  The coffin was laid on top of a gun drawn by eight horses.

The sadness of the fatality is heightened by the fact that Private Steele left for Ireland with his regiment only about five weeks ago.  He served for two years in France during the war, and on the cessation of hostilities signed on for other three years.  He was of a genial disposition, and was thoroughly liked by all who knew him.  His mother is a widow, and is at present in a precarious condition through illness.

Dundee Courier 3rd August 1921