Thomas O'KEEFE

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Service Number:	565
Enlisted:	25 March 1916, Enlisted at Brisbane, QLD
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	4th Machine Gun Company
Born:	Tipperary, Ireland , June 1882
Home Town:	Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Telegraph Lineman
Died:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 28 August 1963, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Nudgee Cemetery & Crematorium, Brisbane
Memorials:

25 Mar 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 565, 7th Machine Gun Company, Enlisted at Brisbane, QLD
23 Dec 1916:	Involvement Private, 565, 7th Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Orontes embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
23 Dec 1916:	Embarked Private, 565, 7th Machine Gun Company, RMS Orontes, Melbourne
14 Aug 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 4th Machine Gun Company, From 7th Machine Gun Company
24 Oct 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 565, 4th Machine Gun Company, Discharged at the 5th Military District as medically unfit

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Address at the time of enlistment was given as 'Kandahar', Grove Street, South Brisbane, QLD.

Son of Thomas Joseph O'Keefe and Margaret O'Keefe nee Scanlan of Tipperary, Ireland.

Next of kin given as his brother Michael O'Keefe of Robert Street, Kangaroo Point, QLD.

Commenced return to Australlia on 12 May 1919 aboard HT Port Napier disembarking on 22 June 1919 at Perth

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal