KEENAN, Charles Raymond
| Service Number: | 657 |
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| 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 | |
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| 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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Add my storyBiography 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