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Percy Walter Charles St John Keenan

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Nominal Roll Vol 1, Page: 385 - No known copyright restrictions

Nominal Roll Vol 1, Page: 385 - No known copyright restrictions

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Percy Walter Charles St John AWMM
  • Surname
    Keenan AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Percy St John AWMM
  • Service number
    • WWI 0/7 AWMM
    • WWI 4/1882A AWMM
    • WWI 10/1273 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    17 June 1871 AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW1 Pre 12 August 1914 AWMM Eastbourne, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW1 Mrs Louise Keenan (wife), 18 Frankfurt Road, Herne Hill, London, S.E., England AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 15 August 1914 AWMM Married AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
  • Campaign
    • South Africa AWMM
    • 1915-1916 Gallipoli AWMM
    • 1914-1916 Egypt AWMM
    • 1914-1919 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
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW1 12 August 1914 AWMM Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • 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

About death

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  • Death
    18 June 1949 AWMM
    Age 73 AWMM
    Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Karori Cemetery, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM Ashes Sold Niche 18 DIV C1 AWMM
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  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

Sources

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  • External links
    Military personnel file
    http://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=18055774
    Further Reference
  • Documents
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      Vol1: 385 AWMM
    • Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications AWMM
      Vol. 2: Includes portrait AWMM
    • 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. AWMM

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