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Personal data

• Name KEYS
• Initials W
• First name WILLIAM
• Place of birth Wangaratta
• Country Victoria, Australia
• Family Son of William Wilkin Keys and Emma Keys, of Bright, Victoria, Australia.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted in Bathurst, New South Wales on 21 February 1916
• Service number 1946
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 45th Bn. Australian Infantry
• Division - Brigade 12th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 4th Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career Embarkation in Sydney on 22 April 1916; to France on 24 September 1916

Death

• Wounded Trench fever, admitted to Birmingham at 31 January 1917; back to unit on 3 May 1917; neurasthenia, to hospital on 12 July 1917; back to unit on 12 August 1917
• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds on face, fracture skull
• Date of death 14 October 1917
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXI - F - 19A

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