Percy Darcy KEANE

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KEANE, Percy Darcy

Service Number:	506
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
Born:	Queensland, Australia, 4 July 1883
Home Town:	Mackay, Mackay, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Queensland, Australia, 17 May 1962, aged 78 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Ipswich General Cemetery, Qld Plot: Church of England New C, Row 17, Grave 4
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Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 506, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
20 Apr 1901:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 506, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 488 notes 5th QIB Draft embarked at Pinkenba 10 Mar 1901 aboard Chicago arriving Port Elizabeth 20 Apr 1901.
5 May 1902:	Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 506, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 491 notes 5th QIB embarked at Cape Town 27 Mar 1902 aboard St Andrew returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 30 Apr 1902, disbanded 5 May 1902.

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Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey

Full name: Percival Darcy Keane

When Percy (Percival) Darcy Keane enlisted in 1901, he was part of a draft of men established to follow, and embarked some four days after, the main 5th QIB contingent to South Africa. The men in the draft were not included in the original nominal roll for the 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen Contingent, held by National Archives. He is however, included in the Boer War Service Paybooks for the 5th QIB, Bk 4 p. 18, and in newspaper reports.

His details were published with the rank and file in The Queenslander, 16 Mar 1901, where his N.O.K. is recorded as his father P. Keane, The Cedars, North Side, Mackay. The Boer War Service Paybooks for the 5th QIB, Bk 4 p. 18, notes his name as Percival Darcy Keane, that he was discharged in Brisbane on 5 May 1902, granted a pass on 20 May 1902 to travel to Mackay, and his address post discharge was Cedars, North Side, Mackay.

Percival Darcy Keane was born on 4 Jul 1883 in Queensland, a son to Patrick Joseph Keane and Mary Margaret Keane (nee Macdonald or McDonald).

(source- AWM Boer Wr Nominal Roll, Murray p. 504; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB, Bk 4 p. 18).

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