Identity
Title
Forenames
William Robert AWMM
Surname
Keay AWMM
Ingoa
Also known as
Bob AWMM
Service number
WWI 25717 AWMM
Gender
Iwi
Hapū
Waka
Rohe
Religion
Civilian life
Birth
Date of birth
Place of birth
Birth notes
Address before enlistment
Pre 21 May 1916 AWMM c/o Herekino Post Office, New Zealand AWMM
Post war occupation
Next of kin on embarkation
William Robert Keay (father), Post-office, Herekino, New Zealand AWMM
Relationship status
Pre 23 September 1916
AWMM Single AWMM
Service
Capture details
Days interned
Liberation date
Liberation Repatriation
POW liberation details
POW serial number
Medical notes
- Height, Unknown Period AWMM
6.5 feet AWMM - Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
12 stone AWMM - Eye colour, Unknown Period AWMM
Brown AWMM - Hair colour, Unknown Period AWMM
Dark AWMM - Complexion, Unknown Period AWMM
Dark AWMM - Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
Featherston Hospital, NZ 9 July - 24 July 1916 German Measles AWMM - Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
7 General Hospital, St Omer, France 5 February - 25 February 1917 Mumps AWMM - Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
Biographical information
David Keay was the son of William Robert and Ellen Keay nee Steele, of Herekino.
Born at Fairlie, New Zealand. He lived and worked on the family farm "Sedgley" at Herekino and volunteered for service.
William Robert Keay fought in, and survived, the Battle of Messines but was killed two months later by a shell whilst in the trenches to the South East of the Messines sector.
Two brothers served in WW1, David Keay (26/831) and William Keay (25717) both were killed.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission gives William Keay's mother's name as Ellen Steele Keay. Steele was Mrs Keay's maiden name. AWMM
Memorials
Memorial name
- Herekino War Memorial, Kaitaia-Awaroa Road, Northland, New Zealand AWMM
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
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Sources
External links
Documents
- Military Personnel file AWMM
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
41: 35 AWMM - Armoury Cenotaph File AWMM
See 'The Pakeha', ship's newspaper, October 1916, of the 17th Reinforcements of the NZEF. Copy in the Armoury Vertical File. AWMM - New Zealand. Army (c.1920). A further list of the names of ex-members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force suffering permanent disability from 20% to 100% : compiled from returns supplied by the Commissioner of Pensions, in respect to: a) Permanent war pensions; and from returns supplied by the Director-General of Medical Services, regarding: b) discharged hospital patients; assessed as suffering permanent disability, and who are whilst in hospital, receiving full pensions. New Zealand. Director-General of Medical Services. AWMM
- Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2015). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-3). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications AWMM
Vol. 2: Includes portrait AWMM - The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018) AWMM
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