Percy Walter Charles St John Keenan

Forenames

Percy Walter Charles St John AWMM

Surname

Keenan AWMM

Also known as

Percy St John AWMM

Service number

• WWI 0/7 AWMM
• WWI 4/1882A AWMM
• WWI 10/1273 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

17 Jun 1871 AWMM

Address before enlistment

WW1 Pre 12 Aug 1914 AWMM Eastbourne, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 Mrs Louise Keenan (wife), 18 Frankfurt Road, Herne Hill, London, S.E., England AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 15 Aug 1914 AWMM Married AWMM

War

• South African War, 1899-1902 AWMM
• World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
• Territorial Military Service AWMM

Campaign

• South Africa AWMM
• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
• 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM
• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

• WWI 0/7 AWMM
• WWI 4/1882A AWMM
• WWI 10/1273 AWMM

Military service

• No 4 Field Company, New Zealand Engineers Volunteers from April 1910 AWMM
• New Zealand Railway Battalion 12 August 1912 - 14 August 1914 AWMM

Medals and Awards

• Queen's South Africa Medal AWMM
• King's South Africa Medal AWMM
• 1914-1915 Star AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM
• New Zealand Territorial Service Medal AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 12 Aug 1914 AWMM

Embarkation details

• WW1 HMNZT 1 or HMNZT 2 AWMM Vessel was Moeraki or Monowai AWMM Captain/Military AWMM 3rd (Auckland) Regiment AWMM Samoan Advance Party AWMM
• WW1 HMNZT 24 or HMNZT 25 or HMNZT 26 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima AWMM Captain/Military AWMM New Zealand Field Engineers AWMM 5th Reinforcements AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

Last rank

WW1 26 Jul 1918 AWMM Major/Military AWMM

Husband of Louise (Emma Louisa Hunter) married 1903 Cape Colony.

Served in South Africa with the British South Africa Company Mounted Police and the Southern Rhodesia Volunteers

Number 0/7 issued for Samoa Advance AWMM

Death

18 Jun 1949 AWMM
Age  73 AWMM

Cemetery

Karori Cemetery, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM Ashes Sold Niche 18 DIV C1 AWMM

Related objects

External links

Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R18055774
Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 385
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 2: Includes portrait
• Stowers, R. (2009). Rough riders at war : history of New Zealand's involvement in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 and information on all members of the 10 New Zealand contingents. Hamilton, N.Z.: R. Stowers.
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Annabell, N. Official History of the New Zealand Engineers during the Great War 1914–1919. Wanganui: Evans, Cobb & Sharpe, 1927.