did gandhi meet sam steele?

During the Second Boer War, Mohandas Gandhi volunteered to form a group of stretcher-bearers as the Natal Indian Ambulance Corps. According to the historian Arthur Herman, Gandhi wanted to disprove the imperial British stereotype that Hindus were not fit for "manly" activities involving danger and exertion. He served at the same time that Sam Steele was there performing his duties in the war. Had the two ever encountered each other?

(By coincidence, both men died on January 30'th. Sam Steele died January 30'th, 1919. Gandhi died January 30'th, 1948.)