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Military service
Service number:
687659
Age:
33
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
172nd Bn.
Birth:
August 9, 1882
Spallumcheen, British Columbia
Enlistment:
February 12, 1916
Kamloops, British Columbia
Death:
March 21, 1916
Kamloops, British Columbia
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Son of Cornelius and Mary Ann O'Keefe, of Okanagan, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Private Francis Joseph O'Keefe
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Circumstances of Death
Private Francis Joseph O'Keefe - Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment) 172nd Bn. Son of Cornelius and Mary Ann O'Keefe, of Okanagan, British Columbia. Died in Kamloops BC of pneumonia. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/microform-digitization/006003-119.01-e.php?q2=36&q3=2909&sqn=1018&tt=1306&PHPSESSID=f0ooij30aol4l9604kd9st8m33 -
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Grave marker of Pte Francis Joseph O'Keefe. (Courtesy of 'So Far From Home, Armstrong's Fallen of the Great War', Leonard J. Gamble, Author)
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Commemorated on:
Page 143 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VERNON O'KEEFE RANCH CEMETERY British Columbia, Canada
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