BORN HORNSEA 1881. SON OF ROBERT KEITH (1846-1891) AND MARY SMITH KEITH (1844-1925), OF MERE SIDE, HORNSEA. ONE OF ELEVEN CHILDREN. WORKED AS A RULLYMAN. HE MARRIED AT HULL, IN 1906. HIS WIFE, BEATRICE KEITH AND THREE CHILDREN, LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS (1911 CENSUS). 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