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Private Byron Thomas Keating

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Military service

Service number: 117330
Age: 23
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles (British Columbia Regt.)
Birth: July 25, 1893 Chatham, New Brunswick
Enlistment: January 11, 1915 Alberta
Death: September 30, 1916 France

Burial/memorial information

CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY
Grave reference: II. E. 5.
Additional information
Son of Thomas and Catherine (née Flanagan) Keating. Brother of Kate. He stated he was single and employed as an agent. Private Keating was a former member of the firm of Keating and Duggan, real estate brokers in Calgary for many years. He lived in Calgary for fourteen years.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 603 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY Somme, France

Contay is a village in the Department of the Somme on the main road, Amiens to Arras. The CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY lies on the left (north east) side of the road to Franvillers. There are no access problems. There is a CWGC road sign next to the church and square of the village and next to the D23, Franvillers - Corbie, sign. The distance from the CWGC sign to the Cemetery is approximately 650 metres.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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