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KEANE, James Edward
| Service Numbers: | 1291, 11291 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 February 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Signaller |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Gawler, South Australia, March 1886 |
| Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Adelaide, South Australia, 8 January 1933, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
AIF Cemetery, West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia Section: LO, Road: 9N, Site No: 3 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Feb 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1291, 3rd Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 21 Sep 1915: | Involvement Private, 1291, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Star of England embarkation_ship_number: A15 public_note: '' | |
| 21 Sep 1915: | Embarked Private, 1291, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Star of England, Adelaide | |
| 1 Jun 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 11291, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, Battle of Romani, Fractured right arm GSW | |
| 20 Feb 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 11291, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, MD due to wounding right arm during battle of Romani | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Signaller, 1291 |
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From How We Served
1291 Trooper James Edward Keane of Gawler. South Australia had been employed as a labourer when he enlisted for War Service on the 4th of February 1915 and would be allocated to reinforcements for the 9th Light Horse Regiment,1st AIF.
On the 21st of September James was embarked for Egypt and further training and by the 13th of November he had arrived on Gallipoli and was taken on strength with his Regiment in the trenches, being amongst the last reinforcements to be sent to the Dardanelles campaign prior to the general evacuation of the Peninsular.
Following his arrival back in Egypt on the 20th of December 1915 James service with his Regiment in the commencement of the Middle East in an ongoing campaign against the Turkish forces. would be continuous. In the vicinity of Romani on the 1st of June 1916, James was wounded by an arial bomb receiving serious injuries to his right arm. Evacuated for hospitalisation at Port Said, James would then be sent back to Egypt for further treatment the following week, arriving on the 9th of June.
On the 5th of July James was embarked for repatriation to Australia where he would need further hospital care before being formally discharged from the 1st AIF as no long fit for active service on the 20th of February 1917. Having now re-entered civilian life, James’s premature death whilst at Keswick occurred on the 8th of January 1933, at the age of 47 and it was officially accepted as being caused by his earlier War Service.
Following his passing James was formally laid to rest within West Terrace Cemetery, South Australia.
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