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KEEN, William James Edwin
(Service number 5/698)

Aliases	Name recorded as William James Edward KEEN on Cenotaph Database
First Rank	Driver	Last Rank

Birth

Date	17 March 1893	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Mount Somers, Canterbury
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	William KEEN (father), Woodbury Road, Geraldine
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	8th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Army Service Corps
Date	13 November 1915
Transport	Willochra or Tofua
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
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Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

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Discharge

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Death

Date	Age	67 years
Place of Death
Cause
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Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Son of William & Elizabeth Jane (nee BECKLEY) KEEN. Educated at Orari Bridge & Woodbury Schools. Died in 1960. Brothers Charles Richard John KEEN & Walter Henry Owen KEEN also served in WWI.

Sources

Cenotaph Database [06 January 2014]; NZ BDM (DiA Historical Records) [06 January 2014]; School Admission Records (South Canterbury Branch NZSG) [06 January 2014]

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