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KEENE, Walter Rashbrooke
(Service number 6/2678)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	29 April 1895	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date	17 April 1915	Age	20 years
Address at Enlistment	Care of Mrs Braid, Church Street West, Timaru
Occupation	Bricklayer
Previous Military Experience	2 years in Senior Cadets; 2 years in Territorials; 2nd South Canterbury Regiment - still serving
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	George KEENE (father), Smithfield, Timaru
Religion	Methodist
Medical Information	Height 5 feet 5½ inches. Weight 142 lbs.Chest measurement 32½-35 inches.

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	6th Reinfocements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	14 August 1915
Transport	Willochra
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Balkan (Gallipoli, Mudros); Egyptian; Egyptian Expeditionary Force; Western European
Service Medals	1914-1915 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal
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	13 April 1919	Reason	On termination of period of engagement.

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Bricklayer

Death

Date	9 December 1973	Age	78 years
Place of Death	Auckland
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Purewa Crematorium, Auckland
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Walter Rashbrook KEENE was one of five sons of George Sydney and Lydia (née Marshall) Keene who served in World War One. Walter was educated at Waimataitai School, Timaru. Walter married Dorothy Alice Marriott in 1926. He had met her in London while on leave from service during the war. Dorothy travelled to New Zealand after the war.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [09 August 2017]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ ref. AABK 18805 W5922 0063016) [13 August 2017]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ ref. AABK 18805 W5968 0443639) [13 August 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [09 August 2017]

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