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WILLIAM ROBERT O'KEEFE
Kingston upon Hull HU2 8DQ
England
BORN HULL 1896. SON OF THOMAS O'KEEFE (1864-1921) & MARY ELLEN CALVERT (1868), OF 55, NEPTUNE STREET, HULL & 10, COTTINGHAM PLACE, COTTINGHAM PLACE, CHARLES STREET, HULL (ADDRESS FROM HULL DAILY MAIL, 20/08/1919). HIS FATHER WAS A FORMER GUNNER AND SERGEANT IN THE ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY, WHO ENLISTED WHEN WAR BEGAN AND WAS DISCHARGED IN MARCH 1917.
WILLIAM O'KEEFE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. HE WORKED AS AN ERRAND BOY (1911) AND A DOCK LABOURER.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. SERVED AT GALLIPOLI, WAS KILLED IN ACTION ON 21/08/1917, AGED 21. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, MARY.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE ST CHARLES BORROMEO CHURCH MEMORIAL, JARRATT STREET, HULL.
ALL HIS BROTHER SERVED DURING THE WAR AND WERE FEATURED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH, ON 22/08/1918. *
HIS BROTHER, GUNNER, THOMAS O'KEEFE (1880-1921), RGA, WAS WOUNDED AND DISCHRAGED FROM THE ARMY IN 1917.
IT WAS REPORTED THAT HIS BROTHER, CORPORAL JAMES WILLIAM O'KEEFE (1889-1947), RFA, WAS KILLED IN ACTION (NO CWGC RECORD). ANOTHER BROTHER, CORNELIUS O'KEEFE, ROYAL ENGINEER'S, LIVED AT 10, COTTINGHAM PLACE, CLIFTON STREET, HULL
NOTE. O'KEEFE FAMILY, ALSO LIVING AT 100, MANCHESTER STREET, HULL.
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