Gunner Nelson Steele Allcock

Gunner Nelson Steele Allcock

Army

Kerrobert, Saskatchewan

Died: July 20, 1941

Commemorated at Dodsland, SK

L255 Gunner (2nd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery) (Nelson) Steele Allcock (b.1918) of Kerrobert died 19410720 and is buried at Brookwood military cemetery near Woking, Surrey, England. Allcock was a despatch rider and died at Lewisham hospital two days after his motorcycle collided with a bus. Steele was born at Pasqua (east of Moose Jaw) to Thomas Everet and Ethel Beatrice Allcock, attended Avoca school, and had just started farming on his own when he enlisted at Regina in 1940. Thomas homesteaded SE16-17-24-W2 northwest of Belle Plaine before resettling just west of the Ermine siding southeast of Kerrobert.

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