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KEAY, Thomas
(Service number 15915)

Aliases
First Rank	Lance Sergeant	Last Rank	Lance Sergeant

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth	Fairlie, Canterbury, New Zeand

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	John Keay (father), George Road, Fairlie, Canterbury, New zealand
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	6th Reinforcements 3rd Battalion, G Company
Date	26 July 1916
Transport	Waitemata or Ulimoroa
Embarked From	Wellington, New zealand	Destination	Devonport, England

Other Units Served With	D Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd
Last Unit Served With	New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 3rd Battalion, D Company

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	30 November 1917	Age	25
Place of Death	Ypres, Belgium
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Hooge Crater Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Memorial Reference	I.F. 7
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Fairlie War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Thomas Keay was the son of John and Alice Keay.

Sources

Cenotaph database (October 2014)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Ann Munro, SC branch NZSG

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