Service Details
Name:
 STEYN
Given Name:
 STEPHANUS SEBASTIAN LOMBARD
Initials:
 S S L
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Royal Field Artillery
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Unit:
 117th Bde.
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Unit 2:
 "B" Bty.
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Date of Death:
 1917-12-08
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Age:
 28
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action
Additional
Information:
Son of Margaret Fraser Steyn, of Moorreesburg, Cape Province, South Africa, and the late Dr. G. H. Steyn. Scottish Rugby International. Educated at the Diocesan College, Rondebosch, Cape Town. Went to Oxford with Rhodes Scholarship (Rondebosch 1909) in 1910. Gained his Blue at Oxford for Rugby Football and International Cap for Scotland. Entered Guy's 1913. Joined King Edward's Horse at outbreak of war as a private. Granted a commission in R.F.A., November, 1914.
Commemoration
Country:
 Israel
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Cemetery:
 JERUSALEM WAR CEMETERY, Israel
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Grave Reference:
 B. 12.

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