Allan Ivo Steel

Allan Ivo Steel (27 September 1892 – 8 October 1917) was an English cricketer and soldier.

As a right-handed batsman and a right-arm slow bowler, he represented Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and also Middlesex in two first-class matches in 1912.

[1] Steel served as a lieutenant of the 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards regiment of the British Army and was killed on active service during World War I, aged 25.

[2] His name is on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Panel 9 to 10.

Allan's brother, Jack Steel, also died in the war after being washed overboard while on route to take command of HMS Munster.