George Ernest Howard Keesey

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Reference WMO/174001

Address:

St Mark's Church

Helm Lane

Natland

LA9 7QL

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Metal Brass
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Brass Plaque on the south wall. The CWGC records for this man are very interesting. He was originally buried at the front in a soldiers grave as an 'Unknown British Captain' then apparently at Delville Wood Cemetery. He was then identified from personal effects and personal characteristics, exhumed in December 1929 and reburied in Serre Road Cemetery Number 2. More detail is on 'the Great War Forum' He had also been a schoolmaster at Wellington College.
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TO THE MEMORY OF/GEORGE ERNEST HOWARD KEESEY/AGED 3O YEARS/CAPTAIN 8TH BATTALION RIFLE BRIGADE WHO WAS KILLED/IN ACTION/IN DELVILLE WOOD ON/AUG 24TH 1916 DURING THE BATTLE/OF THE SOMME; HE WAS BURIED NEAR WATERLOO FARM

GEORGE ERNEST HOWARD KEESEY

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