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Pte. Ernest Job Keay
British Army 23rd Battalion (Tyneside Scottish) Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Jarrow
(d.23rd Mar 1918)
Ernest Job Keay served with 23rd Battalion (Tyneside Scottish) Northumberland Fusiliers and was aged 21 when he died on 23rd March 1918.
Born in Jarrow in 1896, he was the son of Walter and Catherine Keay (nee Jones). On the 1911 census, he is listed as Ernest Job Keay age 14 Apprentice House Painter is with his widowed mother Catherine Keay and family at 12 Hope Street, Jarrow. He enlisted in Newcastle.
Ernest is remembered on te Arras Memorial and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church, Jarrow.