KEENE Oswald Rees

  • First Name(s):
    Oswald 
    Rees 
  • Surname:
    KEENE
  • Service Number:
    15866
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
  • Battalion:
    2nd Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    5th May 1915
  • Age At Death:
    24
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Divisional Cemetery, Belgium, Grave B. 3.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of the Reverend Rees Keene, M.A., Oxon. Rector of Gosforth, Cumberland, and Louisa Margaret Keene

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Further Information About KEENE Oswald Rees

Oliver Keene was born in 1891. He attended Malvern College in House 1 from September 1905 to 1909.

De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour:
Keene, Oswald Rees, Private, No 15866, 2nd Battalion Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment, eldest son of the late Reverend Rees Keene, M.A., Oxon, Theological Lecturer at St Bees College, and afterwards Rector of Gosforth, co. Cumberland, 1895-1910,; by his wife, Louisa Margaret, 2nd daughter of the late Sir Augustus Helder, M.P.; born st Bees, co. Cumberland, 30 April, 1891; educated Alton School, Plymouth; The School, Malvern Link, and Malvern College; gazetted 2nd Lieutenant, 5th Border Territorial regiment, 31 May, 1911, but was obliged to retire through ill-health. On the outbreak of war he volunteered, and enlisted in the 3rd Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment, 12 December, 1914, and was afterwards transferred to the Duke of Wellington’s. Left for the Front, 28 April, 1915, and was killed in action on Hill 60 by poisoned gas, 5 May 1915. Buried at Ypres, unmarried.

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