BORN HORNSEA 1881. SON OF ROBERT KEITH (1846-1891) AND MARY SMITH KEITH (1844-1925), OF MERE SIDE, HORNSEA. ONE OF ELEVEN CHILDREN.
HE WORKED AS A RULLYMAN. HE MARRIED AT HULL, IN 1906. HIS WIFE, BEATRICE KEITH (BORN25/8/1883) AND FOUR CHILDREN (GEORGE ROBERT, BEATRICE, FRED, AND HARRIET ELIZABETH), LIVED AT 6, YORK AVENUE, ST MARKS STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SHE WAS AWARDED A WEEKLY WAR PENSION, OF 28 SHILLINGS AND NINE PENCE, ON 29/04/1918.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 2ND COLDSTREAM GUARDS. WAS KILLED IN ACTION, AT POELCAPELLE, ON 09/10/1917, AGED 36. BURIED IN BELGIUM.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE ST MARKS STREET MEMORIAL.
First name:
FRED
Regiment:
Military Number:
13294
Rank:
Private
Date Died
09/10/1917
Place died:
Artillery Wood Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
36
6 YORK AVENUE, ST MARKS STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
