KEEVERS, Harry Robert
| Service Number: | 2132 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 March 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Pioneer Battalion |
| Born: | Wickham, New South Wales, Australia, 8 November 1888 |
| Home Town: | Tighes Hill, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Tighes Hill Public School, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Shell burst, Belgium, 29 October 1917, aged 28 years |
| Cemetery: |
Potijze Chateau Grounds Cemetery Plot II, Row D, Grave No. 6 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, St Mark's HR Islington, Tighe's Hill Public School HR, Waratah Memorial Gates, Wickham "Citizens of Wickham" Volunteers Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Mar 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2132, 1st Pioneer Battalion | |
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| 3 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 2132, 1st Pioneer Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Clan McGillivray embarkation_ship_number: A46 public_note: '' | |
| 3 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 2132, 1st Pioneer Battalion, HMAT Clan McGillivray, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Memorialised and awaiting memorialisation at Sandgate Cemetery, not forgotten.
105 years ago today, on the 29th October 1917, Private Harry Robert Keevers, 1st Australian Pioneer Battalion (Reg No-2132), labourer from Bryant Street, Tighes Hill, New South Wales, father of two (Myrtle Ethel, born 1913, Elsie May, born 1915, Wickham, N.S.W.), was Killed in Action by a piece of high explosive shell through the chest at Zonnebeke, Belgium, Passchendaele Campaign, age 28 years 11 months.
Born at Wickham, New South Wales on the 8th November 1888 to Robert James (died 15.8.1929 of 6 Lott Street, Smedmore, N.S.W.) and Emma Keevers (died 2.9.1933 of 6 Lott Street, Smedmore, N.S.W.); husband of Florence May Keevers nee Wright (born 1885, Maclean, N.S.W., married 1912, Wickham, N.S.W., died 24.5.1976, sleeping at ANGLICAN 1-69. 29., 59 years a widow!) of Regent Street, Mayfield, New South Wales (1917) and Valencia Street, Mayfield, N.S.W. (1918) and 14 Fawcett Street, Mayfield N.S.W. (1921) and 7 Corona Street, Mayfield, N.S.W. (1922) and 27 Church Street, Mayfield, N.S.W. (1922), Harry enlisted March 1916 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Harry is resting at Potijze Chateau Grounds Cemetery, Belgium. Plot II Row D Grave 6.
Mr. Keevers’s name has been inscribed on the Book of Gold, Islington St. Mark's Anglican Church Roll of Honour, Wickham Municipal District Roll of Honour Board (1), Wickham (Hawkins Oval) Soldiers' Memorial, Waratah Park Memorial Gates, Tighes Hill Public School Honor Roll, Newcastle Lodge-Grand United Order of Druids Roll of Honour, Newcastle Lodge No. 423 Ancient Order of Druids Roll of Honour and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
Harry has been memorialised at his parent’s gravesite, and I have placed poppies in remembrance of his service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. ANGLICAN 1-40. 53.
There is no memorial inscription at the gravesite of Harry’s wife Florence, and I am unable to erect a Memorial cross, so I have placed poppies in remembrance of her husband’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. ANGLICAN 1-69. 29.
Note – a letter sent to the War Department dated the 21st May 1925 by wife Florence states that Harry’s parents are deceased! Florence was a prolific writer to the War Department.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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