O'DONNELL, Keith
| Service Number: | VX97148 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 April 1945 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Dimboola, Victoria, Australia, 17 April 1927 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 25 May 2017, aged 90 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Yan Yean Cemetery, Whittlesea, Victoria 2265 Plenty Rd, Whittlesea Vic, Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 24 Apr 1945: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX97148 | |
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| 10 Jan 1947: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX97148 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Francis Keith (aka Keith) was the youngest of three children of William Henry O'Donnell (b1900 in Withchipool nr Donald, Victoria) and Dulcie Charlotte Emily Williams (b1900 in Dimboola, Victoria). William - an Electrician - and Dulcie married in 1923 in Beulah, Yarriambiack, Victoria. Following Keith's birth in 1927, the family moved to Melbourne where William was a Police Constable. Dulcie died in 1931.
Keith enlisted in the Australian Army in April 1945 and was a Private (Service No:VX97148) attached to 1 Australian BAD when he was Discharged in January 1947.
By 1949 Keith was a Nurse at the Mental Hospital in Ararat, Victoria and in 1951 married Veronica Marjorie Paynter (b1927 in Ararat, Victoria) - Marjorie was a Launderess. Keith and Marjorie soon moved to Melbourne, where Keith worked as a Mental Nurse. Veronica died in 2007 and Keith in 2017.
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