Daniel O'KEEFFE

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Service Number:	6945
Enlisted:	4 November 1916, Enlisted at Cairns, QLD
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company)
Born:	Swansea, South Wales, 1 January 1874
Home Town:	Cooktown, Cook, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Coal Miner
Died:	Queensland, Australia, 3 March 1962, aged 88 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:

4 Nov 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 6945, Tunnelling Companies, Enlisted at Cairns, QLD
11 May 1917:	Involvement Sapper, 6945, Tunnelling Companies, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Shropshire embarkation_ship_number: A9 public_note: ''
11 May 1917:	Embarked Sapper, 6945, Tunnelling Companies, HMAT Shropshire, Melbourne
31 Oct 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company)
30 Oct 1918:	Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 6945, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company), Discharged at the 1st Military District as medically unfit due to premature senility

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Son of Andrew O'Keeffe and Mary O'Keeffe nee Maher of Swansea, South Wales.

Next of kin given as a friend Charles Patching of Cooktown, QLD.

Commenced return to Australia on 24 August 1919 aboard HT Medic disembarking on 9 October 1918 at Sydney for onward travel to Brisbane

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal