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ERA3. Charles William Donaldson Kaye
Royal Navy HMS Juno
from:Deganwy, Carnavonshire
(d.10th February 1917)
Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class Charles Kaye was the son of Mrs. Jane Ann Keighley (formerly Kaye) of Gwynedd, Deganwy, Carnavonshire. He was aged 28 when he died and is buried in the Muscat New Naval Cemetery in Oman.
Pte. Joseph Kaye
British Army 5th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment
from:Worsbrough, Barnsley
My Grandad Joe Kaye joined up on the 18th November 1914. He was severely wounded at the Somme and finally invalided out on the 14th July 1918. He had the War medal, the Victory medal and the Silver war badge. He finally succumbed to the effects of his wounds in 1937. I never had the honour of meeting him.
This link contains a film of the battalion during an inspection in 1915.
Sgt. Lister Walter Kaye
British Army 2nd/6th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Workington
(d.21st Mar 1918)
My son was given the task of researching a family member who had been involved in either the First or Second World War. We knew that we had a relative who had fought in World War One so we started digging.
Lister Kaye was born in Workington in 1893. His mother died when he was 10. His father remarried and had three further children, the youngest of which was my grandfather, Ernest Graham Kaye. Ernest remembers, at the age of four, his half-brother swinging him up onto his shoulders. This would have been 1914, the year Lister enlisted. He served for four years. On 21st of March 1918, while he fought with the2nd/6th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, he was involved in the first day of the massive German offensive, Operation Michael. He was killed at the Battle of St Quentin. He was 25 years old.
Perhaps as a direct result of losing his half-brother, my grandfather became a conscientious objector in WW2. He had to go before a panel to explain his choice. If we learnt one thing from what he recounted, it was that life as a conscientious objector was miserable.
Two very different, but equally heartbreaking stories.
2nd Lt. Marcus Kaye
Royal Flying Corps
Lt Kaye was a prisoner at Schweidnitz POW camp. He made at least one attempt to escape.
Lt. Henry Batten Keable
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve HMS Manxman
from:Kensington, London
(d.11th September 1918)
Lieutenant Henry Keable was the Second son of Rev Robert Henry Keable and Margaret Clarke of Kensington, London. He was 30 when he died and is buried in the Syracuse Communal Cemetery, Sicily, Italy.
Cpl. James William Keable MM.
British Army 7th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Hull
(d.5th November 1918)
Cpl. William Ernest Keal
British Army 2nd Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
(d.20th April 1918)
Pte. George Kean
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Liverpool
(d.1st November 1916)
Burried Bailleul Cemetery
Carp. W. W. Kean
Mercantile Marine Reserve HMS Patuca
(d.15th June 1918)
Carpenter W W Kean was buried in the Gamboa British Cemetery in Brazil, Grave 716.
Patrick Keane
British Army Royal Horse Artillery
Patrick Keane joined the Royal Horse Artillery on the 20th of October 1905. It is believed he saw active service at the Somme but no other information is available.
2ndLt. William Keane
British Army 7th Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers
Second Lieutenant William Kearns served with the 7th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers. He served with Pte William Sweeney and Pte H Brown, currently being researched by Ciaran Goggins.
Dvr. Osman William Henry Kear MiD.
British Army 295th Brigade, D Battery Royal Field Artillery
from:Risca, Bedford
Will Kear was my grandfather. Born in 1897, he joined the Territorial Force on the outbreak of WWI. He served with 124th Brigade RFA, supporting 37th Infantry Division and later D Battery, 295th Brigade RFA, part of 59th Division.
This is his diary entry for 11th of November 1918, "Got up at 6 and groomed and had breakfast. Clean parade and stables at 10am. Five minutes past we all fell in and the wireless telegram was read out. The war is napoo, peace proclaimed! Too excited to write. Some experience with all the bells ringing. The boys are going mad. A remarkable thing, the war finished at 11 am on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. Waiting for mail as we have not had any this last three days. It will be up this afternoon. So, it won't be long before we are off to Blighty! Started a green letter to my Darling Girl. Finish it after the mail is come in. Got paid 10Frs. No mail up. I have finished the letter and off to kip."
He was demobilised in 1919, but rejoined the Territorial Army in 1933, this time the Sappers. He served until 1941, having been evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk. By then he was a sergeant having been Mentioned in Despatches for distinguished Service on operations during the period March- June 1940.
Pte. Luke Kearney
British Army 1st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Jarrow
(d.9th Nov 1914)
Luke Kearney served with the 1st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, he was aged 33 when he died on 9th November 1914. He was born, lived and enlisted in Jarrow. Son of Ann Kearney and the late Thomas Kearney and husband of Elizabeth J. McErlaine (formerly Kearney nee Keenan) of 6 Cambrian Street Jarrow. On the 1911 census he is recorded as Luke Kearney age 27 Labourer in Chemical Works is with his wife Elizabeth Kearney and children and widowed mother Ann Kearney at 16 Hope Street, Jarrow.
Luke is remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church, Jarrow.
Pte. Thomas Kearney
British Army 1st Battalion Royal Irish Rifles
from:Armagh N. Ireland
(d.16th Aug 1917)
Thomas Kearney was the son of Patrick and E. Kearney of 4 Railway Street, Armagh, Northern Ireland. He joined the 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Rifles in 1915. He was killed in action on 16th August 1917 aged just 20 years and is one of the many who lie were he fell. His name is commemorated with honour at Tyne Cot Memorial. Remembered with pride by his Great Nephew.
Pte. John Patrick Kearns
British Army 12th Battalion Kings Liverpool Regiment
(d.16th August 1917)
Pte. Michael L. Kearns
British Army 7th Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers
from:Roscommon
23508 Private Michael L Kearns served with the 7th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers during WW1. He was born in 1892 and enlisted in 1915.
Pte. Thomas Kearns
British Army 18th Btn. London Regiment
Thomas Kearns fought 1916 to 1918 with the London Irish Rifles and was gassed. He came home, married Jenny Beamont and had one daughter Constance.
Master Robert Valentine Kearon
Mercantile Marine S.S. "Jane Williamson"
from:Ferrybank, Arklow.
(d.12th September 1917)
Master Kearon was the Son of Robert and Anne Kearon, of Beulah, Ferrybank, Arklow.
He was 40 when he drowned and is buried in the Old Ground, Grave 30 in the Kilbride Church of Ireland Churchyard, Kilbride, Co. Wicklow, Ireland.
The SS Jane Williamson was a sailing vessel, 197grt, 10 September 1917, 20 miles NNE from St Ives, captured by submarine, sunk by gunfire, 4 lives lost including the Master.
Pte. Thomas Kearsley
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Wheatley Hill
(d.8th Sep 1917)
Burried Templeux
Pte. Frederick Thomas Keates
British Army 1st Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment North Staff
from:Cheadle, Staffs
(d.28th 0r 30th April 1916)
Pte. Albert James Keating
British Army 11th Btn. Royal West Kent Regiment
from:3 Herschell Road, Forest Hill Lewisham
I am currently, writing an account of Pte. Albert Keating's WW1 experiencewith the 11th Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment . According to the Regimental History held at Lewisham Library, he volunteered at Catford in the 11th Battalion raised by the Mayor. He survived a number of engagements on the Western Front. He was wounded in 1917 near Dickebush Lake, and transferred to Huddersfield for treatment. He returned to the Battalion on 9th September 1917 which was to take part in the Tower Hamlets offensive, 3rd Battle of Ypres, near Zillebeke. The Battalion subsequently transferred to the Italian Campaign.
Sgt. Francis Keating
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Scots
from:Dublin, Ireland
(d.7th June 1917)
Pte. Benjamin Walter Keatley
British Army 5th Btn Oxfordshire and Bucks Light Infantry
from:Griff, Nuneaton
(d.15th September 1916)
Benjamin Keatley was born in 1891, the 9th of 11 children(at least 2 dying when infants). He came from a farming and mining background at Griff, near Nuneaton in Warwickshire. We know 2 other brothers also served in WW1, in different regiments. The youngest was the only one to return home - badly gassed and an invalid for the rest of his life.
I do not know for certain how Benjamin was listed in the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, other locals joined the Warwickshire Regiment. It may be that his original enlisting battalion was diminished to the point he was absorbed into another one. He is likely to have had valuable experience with horses and tunnelling. We are still doing family history research.
He died at 25 years old on 15th September 1916 in the Battle of the Somme, we think he may have been at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette and seen the early use of tanks. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial and on a Roll of Honour Board which existed at his old workplace, Haunchwood Colliery in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.
John "Jack" Keaveney
Army Inniskilling Fus
from:Sligo, Londonderry
John(Jack) of Beechwood Av, Londonderry was reared as an orphan in a Manse, Sligo with his two older brothers, both professional soldiers before him (see Enniskillen War Memorial). He served in Ireland, on the Nile and in Crete before the War. As one of the Old Contemptibles he was engaged on the left flank of the British Army - family has it before the Battle of Mons proper. There he was wounded in his right hand and bottom when his position was overrun in an Infantry pincher movement. The Germans found him beside a machine gun with the belt in his teeth. They admired him and gave him the best of attention, which included having his sinews and bottom passage fixed by a Vienesse surgeon. He was a POW and awarded with a ham by the Kaiser for his POW Camp vegetable garden. He converted to RC and lost his inheritence - the northern Whig family of Boyle were aunts? He served afterwards as a Barrack warden in Ebrington Barracks, Londonderry. In WW2 he was employed in runs to east Anglia supplying intercept missiles? I have not been able to find the skirmish on the left flank but the historians attribute the delay forcerd on the German Advance by the Inniskilling Fus as one of the causes of the war being won.
Sister Keay
Queen Alexandras Nursing Service No. 32 Stationary Hospital
Sister Keay served at No. 32 Stationary Hospital, Wimereux
L/Sjt. Charles Keay
British Army 1st Battalion North Staffs Regiment
from:Knightley, Staffordshire
Charles Keay was my Grandfather and he enlisted in the North Staffordshire Regiment in 1910, so he was amongst the first to be sent to France. He managed to survive until the North Staffords were sent to Delville Wood in August 1916, where there was heavy fighting and he sustained a serious shrapnel wound. He was hospitalised and sent back to Cork in Ireland and didn't have to return to the front. He was honorably discharged in 1919.
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.
Cpl. John Kee
British Army 9th Btn. Royal iniskilling Fusiliers
from:Dungannon
(d.16th Aug 1917)
John Kee was a lance corporal and a signaler. He fought through the war finally being lost during the Battle of Passchendaele on the above date. He has no known grave but his name is on the memorial wall at Tynecot.
Pte. Joseph Edwin Kee
Australian Imperial Force 57th Battalion
from:Footscray, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
(d.26th September 1917)
In recently assisting my son in a school humanities project, I found that a member of my family who died at The Battle of Polygon Wood had also trained at Lark Hill during July, August and October of 1916. Joseph Kee served with the 57th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force in WW1. He had returned from serving in Alexandria, Egypt. Joseph was later at the Hurdcott Camp in England before returning overseas to France.
He was 22 when he left Melbourne, and only 25 when he died. My grandmother who would have been his niece if he had lived. She spent much of her time researching her family history and maintaining wonderful records. I am grateful for her taking such care in recording Joseph's service and keeping his memory alive in my family. My heart goes out to all those affected by the tragic loss of such tremendously courageous men and I can only hope that in such dark times those men found friendship and comfort with each other.
CSM Frederick William Keeble MM
British Army 7th Btn. Suffolk Regiment
from:Blaxhall Suffolk
CSM Frederick Keeble MM was my Grandfather, the only thing he told me about the trenches was they had to eat candles when food was short. I'm told he was wounded 4 times and I know he had bullet holes in his legs that Dad said you could put your finger in and that on his death bed the doctor took off his shirt to reveal a lump of shrapnel visible under the skin on his chest, my Grandmother had never seen him without his shirt on so had no idea it was there.
I don't really know how he won the MM but the story is they were pinned down by a German machine gun nest and no-one could move, after a while Grandad said 'well I've had enough of this' he advanced on the nest, under fire, lobbed some grenades in and bayoneted the men who came out.
After the war Grandads unit were guarding supply trains bound for Germany he was instructed to shoot anyone caught stealing from the trains, an Australian troop train pulled up and the men on board promptly raided the trains which were full of bully beef and all sorts, Grandad is said to have stepped out and on seeing the Australians said 'best we go round the back and have another fag', he wouldn't give the order to open fire, as a result he left the Army without reference which made it hard to get a job.
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