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World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great 1914 1918 first battalion regiment
Sgt. Garth Keene
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Cpt. John Limrick Keene
Mercantile Marine
from:Liverpool
Capt. John Limrick Keene OBE.
Mercantile Marine SS Melville
from:Liverpool
Captain John Keene, OBE, was my grandfather. He was the master of the SS Melville. He retired to Lourenco Marques in Mocambique in 1923. He then moved to Swaziland until 1932, then to Johannesburg where he died in 1957.
Spp. Robert Keenor
British Army 479th Field Coy Royal Engineers
from:North Tawton, Devon
(d.11th Aug 1918)
Pte. Wilfred Keep
British Army 2nd Btn. Devonshire Regiment
from:Lane End, Buckinghamshire
(d.31st May 1918)
Wilfred Keep was the last of 8 children born to Nicholas James Keep and Fanny Bishop. He was killed in the Battle of Aisne and is commemorated at the Soissons Memorial being just one of the 4000 who have no known grave.
2nd Lt. William Robert Cyril Keepfer
British Army 3rd Btn Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Denbigh
(d.4th Nov 1918)
William Keepfer was the son of William Leopold and E Keepfer of Derwenfa, Denbigh.
2nd Lt. William Frank Keepin
Royal Air Force 139 Squadron
(d.16th Aug 1918)
Second Lieutenant William Keepin died at age 20. His plane was shot down over Italy and he is buried in the Romagnano Communal Cemetery in Italy.
Pte. Harold Keers
Australian Imperial Force 15th Btn.
(d.8th Aug 1915)
Harold Keers died on the 8th August 1915 and is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial in the Lone Pine Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey.
L/Cpl. Austin Job Keetch
British Army 8th Battalion Prince Albert's Somerset Light Infantry
from:Stoke-sub-Hamdon, Somerset
(d.19th Nov 1916)
Pte. Fred Thomas Bennett Keeton
British Army 9th (Service) Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
from:Beighton, Nr Sheffield.
My Grandad, died before I got any chance to talk to him about his war experiences. It was only after his death that I became aware of his service.
He joined up on 10/05/1915 and served throughout the war 'till his demob. I have seen his medal record and although they are the ones they all received they still make me proud. I would love to know more about him but fear that will no longer be possibloe unless he was mentioned in a war diary somehwere. But its very good to know that although he would have spent much of his years digging trenches etc. he could have also been involved in heavy fighting as well.
Pte. N. Kehoe
British Army 3rd Btn. Irish Guards
from:Leighlinbridge, Carlow
(d.6th March 1918)
Private N. Kehoe was the son of Mr. N. Kehoe, of Leighlinbridge, Carlow. He is buried south of the church in the Ballyknocken Church of Ireland Churchyard in Co. Carlow, Ireland.
Cpl. Owen Kehoe
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Wexford Warks
(d.27th April 1917)
Owne Kelloe was a Battalion Bomber,he took part in the trench raid on the night of the 5th-6th of June 1916. He is named on the Arras Memorial
Dvr. John Keil
British Army 71st Field Company Royal Engineers
from:Whitechapel
John Keil is named on the St. George in the East War Memorial, I am researching all those listed. His WW1 Service Record is one of the few to have survived and it states that he was sent to the Special Military Surgical Hospital, Church Lane, Tooting on 6th of May 1919. He also served briefly with the Royal Navy (enlisting 1910).
RAEM. William Wallace Keir
Royal Navy
from:Acorns, Bishops Waltham, Hampshire
William Keir graduated MB ChB from the University in 1898, and became Surgeon Rear-Admiral of the British Royal Navy.
He was born in Shimla, India, son of William, a medical missionary of the Auxiliary Medical Services. Keir served as a medical officer on board several ships during and after the First World War, including minelayer Iphigenia, and hospital ships Rewa and China. Keir was made Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1918 and was a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. After the war, Keir was squadron medical officer of the First Battle Squadron and the Battle cruiser Squadron, and was later in charge of the hospital ship Maine. He was later stationed in China where he was put in charge of the Hong Kong Naval Hospital.
In 1932 he was transferred to the Haslar Royal Naval Hospital, England. In 1934 he was appointed honorary surgeon to the King, retiring in 1935. He was also a recipient of the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal in 1935. Surgeon Rear-Admiral William Wallace Keir died on the 12th June 1949.
Spr. James Keith
British Army 61st Field Company Royal Engineers
from:Hartlepool
(d.31st Mar 1917)
James Keith Served with 61st Field Company Royal Engineers, he was aged 34 when he died on 31st March 1917. Born Jarrow 1883, he was the son of Alexander and Mary Ann Keith of Jarrow and husband of Elizabeth Keith (nee Thurston) of 40 Cumberland Street West Hartlepool. He enlisted in West Hartlepool. On the 1911 census he is listed as James Keith age 28 Electrical Labourer in Electrical Works living with his wife Elizabeth Keith and children at 83 Albert Road, Jarrow.
James is buried in Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun.
Pte. John Wallace Keith
British Army 14th (Fife and Forfar Yeomanry) Btn. Black Watch
from:Ladybank, Fife, Scotland
(d.2nd Sept 1918)
My Grandmother's youngest brother, John, worked in the ticket office of Kirkcaldy Railway Station and either enlisted or was called up in 1916 aged 20. He was first sent to Egypt but after a bout of dysentry was sent back home to recuperate. John returned to France but was killed on the Somme at the village of Moislains, 2nd September 1918, aged 22. Three officers and 37 other ranks died in the same action.
John Keith is commemorated on the War Memorials in his home town of Ladybank and in nearby Giffardtown also in Fife, also on the National Railworkers Memorial in Waverley Station, Edinburgh. The Keith family never knew where John was buried, the Books of Remembrance inside Edinburgh Castle show 'no known grave'. However, many years after his parents and siblings had died, the Commonwealth War Graves website put full details of WW1 casualties online and the final resting place of John Wallace Keith was found to be the Communal Cemetery in Peronne. Surviving members of his family have visited the site and say it is a quite beautiful place. RIP John
Pte. John Keith
British Army 14th Btn. (Fife and Forfar Yeomanry) Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
from:Scotland
(d.2nd September 1918)
John Wallace Keith b. 5/6/1896 in Ladybank, Fife, Scotland was the son of Robert and Jane Wallace Keith. John was unmarried and working in the ticket office of Kirkcaldy Railway Station at the time he enlisted in the Fife & Forfar Yeomanry (the Black Watch). His first posting was to Egypt, but dysentery caused him to be shipped home to recover. He returned to the war in France and was killed in an action in the fields around the village of Moislain, Somme on 2/9/1918. Those killed in the same action were buried in Moislains but at the end of the war re-interred at the Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension.
John's name is shown on war memorials in Ladybank and Giffardtown, Fife and on the Railworkers National Memorial inside Edinburgh's Waverley Station. The Books of Remembrance at Edinburgh Castle show 'no known grave' but in 2001, thanks to the Commonwealth War Grave website, his burial site at Peronne was finally found. The next Spring our family, including his nephew Robert, travelled to France to honour him, placing a Saltire and British Legion cross on the grave. The cemetery at Peronne is quiet and beautifully maintained - more a tranquil garden than a 'foreign field'.
ERA. Anthony Kell
Royal Naval Reserve HMS Mons
from:Jarrow
(d.29th Nov1916)
Anthony Kell, Engine Room Artificer served on HMS Mons with the Royal Naval Reserve. He was aged 28 when he died on 29th November 1916. Born in 1885 in Westoe, he was the son of the William and Emma Kell of South Shields and was husband of Annie Kell (nee Dickerson) of 12 Caroline Street Jarrow. Antony is remembered on the Chatham Naval Memorial.
Pte. Charles Henry Kell
British Army 2nd Btn. Rifle Brigade
from:London
Sgt. Cyril Claude Kellam
British Army L Battery Royal Horse Artillery
from:Nottingham
Cyril Claude Kellam was my grandfather. He was born in 1891 and joined the Royal Horse Artillery in 1906 when he was 15 - he lied about his age. He sent postcard to my Grandmother nearly every week he was in France and I still have them. He was wounded near Arras in 1917 and sent home, but returned and served until the end of the war. I have many photos and documents that belonged to him. He was a lovely man and died at the age of 90.
Capt. Arthur Kellas
British Army 89th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
(d.6th Aug 1915)
Captain Arthur Kellas was killed by a sniper's bullet at Lancaster Landing, Gallipoli on 6th August 1915.
I have come across letters to his mother and brother (obviously originally hand-written but subsequently typed some years later) sent by one "Thos Fraser". There is also a handwritten "In Memoriam" poem in his honour written by one George Stephen in August 1917. There is also an envelope with some colours in it. My mother passed away six years ago aged 96 and these were in a bundle of her family papers. Her maiden name was Ross. Her forebears came from Caithness and Halkirk. Her grandfather sailed to Dunedin, New Zealand in 1861. The name Kellas does not feature in the Ross family tree but there may have been some connection as the above papers are contained in a handwritten envelope post-marked "Aberdeen 4 JA 17" (which I take to mean 4th January 1917) addressed to "Miss Zeala Ross, Morven, Newington Ave, Dunedin, New Zealand." Zeala was my great-aunt. There is no reference to "Thos Fraser" in any family records I can find.
The purpose of this message is to see if there is any record of descendants of Captain Kellas to whom I can send the papers and, perhaps, find out what the connection was.
Pte. Albert Alfred "Tom" Kellaway
British Army 5th Btn. C Coy. Dorset Regiment
Albert Kellaway served in the 5th Btn Dorset Regiment from 18 April 1915 in the Dardanelles. He returned home onboard HMHS Britannic when she left Mudros on the 1st of January 1916, she sailed straight for Southampton, where she arrived on the 9th. He was treated at Lord Derby's Warrington War Hospital
We should like to know the dates of entry and exit from the Hospital. He was sent there either upon return from the Dardanelles after final evacuation Jan 1916 with Enteric fever (Typhoid) and to have left the hospital just before July or in July 1916 or he was there with Malaria after returning from East Africa in Nov/December 1916 and left we know not when.
The Cot card (Cot 43, L Ward) of Albert Alfred Kellaway Pte. 13149 C Company 5th Dorset Btn, still actually only 17 years old (d.o.b 8/3/1898) suffering from Enteric fever. Clearly the cards were printed for the purpose by the company.
The patients in this shot include Private Albert Alfred Kellaway, left side (from front) of nurse on bottom step. He was there recovering from Malaria in early 1917 as far as we know.
Private Albert Alfred Kellaway, front row seated far left at Warrington War Hospital
Albert Alfred Kellaway, front row seated far left at Warrington War Hospital.
He ended the War in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, first in East Africa (Autumn 1916) and later at the 3rd battle of Ypres (Autumn 1918).
William Kelle
British Army 6/7th Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
(d.21st Mar 1918)
Pte. Frank Kelleher
British Army 13 Btn Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:Cork, Ireland
(d.25th August 1918)
L/Cpl. Patrick Kelleher
British Army 3rd Coy. Army Service Corps
from:Cork
Dvr. Charles Robert Keller
Royal Horse Artillery J Battery
from:Irthlingborough
Pte. Samuel Kellet
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Wheatley Hill
Samuel Kellet suffered Gunshot wounds
Cpl Harry Kellett
British Army
from:Hull
Cpl. John Kellett MM.
British Army 14th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Widdrington
At the outbreak of WW1, although as a coal miner, and being too old, John Kellett was exempted from military service but he was presented in the street with a white feather (symbolizing cowardice) by some stupid woman. He promptly enlisted in the Northumberland Fusiliers and trained in Aylesbury. He sailed to France on the 9th of Sept 1915 with the 14th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers.
Only a few days later, after a long forced march, he and his battalion were fully engaged in the first major battle of WW1, the Battle of Loos, where they took major casualties. He was awarded the Military Medal (for bravery in the field) but would not say why. It is rumoured that he rescued four wounded men from shell hole under enemy fire. John was promoted to Corporal but could not be further promoted because he was illiterate.
In May 1918 he was wounded in the leg by a ricochet rifle bullet and was captured by the Germans from between a Canadian and a French regiment, when the French withdrew without advising the Northumberland Fusiliers. John spent rest of WW1 in Gothenburg POW camp where his wound was operated on by a dentist from Leeds without anaesthetic. It never really healed and he had dressings on his leg for the rest of his life. He was repatriated via London to Coxlodge Asylum, Gosforth, which was used as Hospital. He was in and out of hospital for three years to recover and especially to save his leg. He often had nightmares of the trenches. He once tried to walk 23 miles, on crutches, from Coxlodge to Red Row for the weekend. Happily, he was given a lift by a farmer. After repatriation he lived in Red Row Northumberland and went back to work in Broomhill Colliery as a shotfirer, despite his crutches.
L/Cpl. John Kellett MM.
British Army 14th (Pioneers) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Red Row, Northumberland
John Kellett was a coal miner aged 38 when war broke out. He was not required to enlist but signed up after being given a white feather. He trained in Aylesbury and sailed to France on 9th of September 1915 with the 14th Battalion (Pioneers), Northumberland Fusiliers. Only a few days later, after a long march, he and his battalion were fully engaged in the first major battle of WW1, the Battle of Loos, where they took 3800 casualties. He was awarded the Military Medal (for bravery in the field). Served most of the war on the Somme. Promoted to Lance Corporal.
In late May 1918, during fighting near Trigny (about 5 miles NW of Reims). He was wounded in the leg by a ricochet rifle bullet and captured by the Germans from between a Canadian and a French regiment, when the French withdrew from the flank of the Northumberland Fusiliers. Spent rest of WW1 in Gothenburg POW camp where his wound was operated on by a dentist from Leeds without anaesthetic or antibiotic. It never really healed properly (part of the shin bone was permanently exposed) and he had dressings on his leg for the rest of his life. Repatriated via London to Coxlodge Asylum, Gosforth, (used as Hospital). He was in and out of hospital for three years to recover and especially to save his leg. He died at home in Chester-le-Street on 20 July 1958 aged 83.
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