Charles Raymond KEENAN

KEENAN, Charles Raymond

Service Number: 657
Enlisted: 14 December 1914, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank: Lance Corporal
Last Unit: 4th Divisional Signal Company
Born: North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1895
Home Town: Preston, Darebin, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Cabinet Maker
Died: Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia, 1966, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
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World War 1 Service

14 Dec 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 657, 2nd Divisional Signal Company, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
22 Dec 1914: Involvement Sapper, 657, 2nd Divisional Signal Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: ''
22 Dec 1914: Embarked Sapper, 657, 2nd Divisional Signal Company, HMAT Borda, Melbourne
8 May 1915: Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 657, 2nd Divisional Signal Company, ANZAC / Gallipoli
2 Jun 1916: Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 4th Divisional Signal Company, In France
23 Sep 1916: Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 4th Divisional Signal Company, From the 2nd Divisional SignalCompany
18 Oct 1917: Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 657, 4th Divisional Signal Company, Third Ypres, Second occasion. Gunshot wound to the left buttock
23 Feb 1919: Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 657, 4th Divisional Signal Company, Discharged at the 3rd Military District

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of Robert George Keenan and Emmaline Mary Keenan nee Lynch of 29 Garnet Streeet, South Preston, Victoria who requested that is Charles if should become a casualty that his name be withheld from the newspapers due to the very poor heath of his mother

Served a three year cabinet making apprenticeship with W. Woodhead of Collingwood, Victoria

Commenced return to Australia on 23 October 1918 aboard HT Port Lyttleton disembarking on the 25 December 1918

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Husband of Mary Elizabeth Keenan nee Fitzgerald. Charles and Mary married in Victoria during 1924c

Also served in the cadets and the Expeditionary Forces

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