In Memory Of

STEYN, STEPHANUS SEBASTIAN LOMBARD

Service Details
Age:
 28
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Rank:
 Lieutenant
Unit:
 117th Bde.
Unit 2:
 "B" Bty.
Regiment:
 Royal Field Artillery
Date of Death:
 1917-12-08
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 B. 12.
Cemetery:
 JERUSALEM WAR CEMETERY, Israel
Country:
 Israel
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.