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Persönliche Daten Dr. Donald Macdonald Steele 

• Er wurde geboren am 17. August 1892 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
• Berufe:
• von 1921 bis 1938 a Medical Practitioner in Port Lincoln, South Australia, Australia.
• von 1938 bis 1961 a Medical Practitioner in Glenelg, South Australia, Australia.
• (Military Service) von 19. Juni 1918 bis 18. November 1918 in Australia: Enlisted but discharged before leaving Australia.
• Er ist verstorben am 25. Juli 1962 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, er war 69 Jahre alt.

  Oorzaak: Heart failure

• Er wurde beerdigt in Centennial Park Cemetery, Centennial Park, South Australia, Australia.
• Ein Kind von Robert Moore Steele Jr. und Theresa O'Leary Steele

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Donald was the youngest son of Robert Moore and Theresa Steele's nine children, he was was born in Adelaide on the 17th of August 1892.

Don was educated at Prince Alfred College where he excelled at sports. He was captain of the school cricket team 1910, 1911 and 1912 and captained the football and tennis teams in 1911 and 1912. Donald was also captain of the school in 1911 and 1912. Donald graduated in medicine from the University of Adelaide in 1919 where he had obtained his 'BLUE' for both cricket and football in 1913.

His First Class cricket career lasted from the 1912/1913 season until the 1920/1921 season (except for the intervening years of World War I). Don captained South Australia in the 1920/1921 season. He was invited to Captain an Austalian team that was going to tour tour New Zealand in 1921. But, unfortunately he hd to decline this wonderful offer as he ws due to start his new medical prctice in Port Lincoln, South Australia later that year and could not afford the time.

In his First Class career, Don played 19 matches, he was at bat 35 times, he scored a total of 1142 run at an average of 35.68 runs per game. He passed the 100 runs per inning 3 times and passed the 50 mark a further 7 times with his highest score being 113, a career that he could be proud of.

Donald enlisted in the Australian Army on 19 June 1918, he was discharged on 18 November1918 without ever leaving Australia.

In 1921 he married Winifred Ringwood who was the youngest child of Frederick W. Ringwood, who at the time of his death was the Collector of Customs in South Australia

He practised at Port Lincoln from 1921 to 1938, where he was in partner-ship at different times with Doctor R. Goode, Doctor C. Rieger, Doctor Bennett and Doctor C. Piper,. He was chairman of the Port Lincoln High School

Donald was also an excellent golfe++

, winning the Port Lincoln championship three times and on coming to live in Glenelg he played Golf at the Royal Adelaide Golf Club from 1946 until 1962. At one stage there were sixteen Steele members of the Royal Adelaide Golf Club at one time. At Glenelg he joined his brother Kenneth in his medical practice and was Medical Officer to 'Minda Home' and to Woodlands Church of England Girls Grammar School

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