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Military service
Service number:
282001
Age:
28
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Nova Scotia Regiment)
Division:
"C" Coy., 85th Bn.
Birth:
July 11, 1890
Death:
October 30, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 26 - 30
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Keddy, of Dawson St., Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
Digital gallery of Private William David Keddy
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Inscription on Menin Gate Memorial
Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Family Memorial
Place of burial: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial<P> Country: Belgium<P> Area: West-Vlaanderen<P> Rank: Private<P> Official Number: 282001 Unit: "C" Coy., 85th Bn. Canadian Infantry<P> Force: Army<P> Nationality: Canadian<P> Details: Killed in action 30-Oct-1917 Aged 28 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Keddy, of Dawson St., Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Panel 26 - 30.<P> Photo taken in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, 09 September 2013 Family headstone. -
Family Memorial
Place of burial: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial<P> Country: Belgium<P> Area: West-Vlaanderen<P> Rank: Private<P> Official Number: 282001 Unit: "C" Coy., 85th Bn. Canadian Infantry<P> Force: Army<P> Nationality: Canadian<P> Details: Killed in action 30-Oct-1917 Aged 28 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Keddy, of Dawson St., Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Panel 26 - 30.<P> Photo taken in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, 09 September 2013 Family headstone. -
Inscription
Place of burial: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial<P> Country: Belgium<P> Area: West-Vlaanderen<P> Rank: Private<P> Official Number: 282001 Unit: "C" Coy., 85th Bn. Canadian Infantry<P> Force: Army<P> Nationality: Canadian<P> Details: Killed in action 30-Oct-1917 Aged 28 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Keddy, of Dawson St., Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Panel 26 - 30.<P> Photo taken in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, 09 September 2013 Family headstone. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Halifax Evening Mail November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Halifax Evening Mail November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private William David Keddy
Digital gallery of
Private William David Keddy
Digital gallery of
Private William David Keddy
Digital gallery of
Private William David Keddy
Digital gallery of
Private William David Keddy
Digital gallery of
Private William David Keddy
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 266 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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