BORN HORNSEA 1886. SON OF MICHAEL KEITH (1857-1915) AND SARAH AN GIBBS (1865-1938). A FARM LABOURER IN SKIRLAUGH AND EX HULL AND BARNSLEY RAILWAY WORKER. ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 10/12/1915, AGED 29 YEARS AND 8 MONTHS. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 21/10/1916. SERVED N THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. RECEIVED SHRAPNEL WOUNDS IN THIGH LEFT CHEEK AND RIGHT HAND, ON 08/03/1917. RETURNED TO SUFFOLK HOSPITAL, IPSWICH, ENGLAND ON 12/03/1917.
RETURNED TO FRANCE, HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 12/10/1917, AGED 31. BURIED AT BARD COTTAGE CEMETERY. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN”
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, HERBERT KEITH, 26941, 1ST EYR, WAS KILLED IN ACTION ON 09/04/1917, AGED 28..
First name:
ARTHUR
Regiment:
Military Number:
24674
Rank:
Private
Date Died
12/10/1917
Place died:
Bard Cottage Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
31
