Stephen John KEANE

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KEANE, Stephen John

Service Numbers:	Not yet discovered
Enlisted:	24 March 1941
Last Rank:	Not yet discovered
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	20 December 1890, place not yet discovered
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Optometrist
Died:	Died of heart failure after infection, 13 April 1941, aged 50 years, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Cairns (General) Cemetery, Queensland Mon. Plot. Sec. T3. Grave 4068.
Memorials:

Peacetime

24 Mar 1941:	Enlisted

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

Captain Keane,Service Number Q39028, was 50 and served during WWII with 51 Bn. Australian Infantry. He saw service with the British Army in WWI from 1915 to 1919.

Enlistment date in the CMF of 24/3/41 and in the AIF of 13/4/41

Appointed Lieutenant RofO Infantry18.04.1939

Appointed Captain [T] 22.04.1940

Retired, relinquishing rank 1.07.1941 by which time he had died.

He was accepted for commemoration as war dead on 21/06/2014

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