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From: "Isabelle Alaban" <>
Subject: RE: [HV] Request Please
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:32:54 +1000
In-Reply-To: <003f01c211cf$d5658d60$185dddcb@ernene>


Sorry,

He was not listed in the 33rd battalion but a quick check of the WW1 nominal
role
http://www.awm.gov.au/database/roh.asp found this entry.

I hope he is the one you have been looking for, if he is then for about
$16.00 you can order a copy of his service record.

Cheers Isabelle
YOUR SEARCH RETURNED 1 RECORD.
Keeley, William David
Number: 2038
Rank: Corporal [Cpl]
Unit: 5th Coy Machine Gun Corps
Service: Army
Conflict: 1914-1918
Date of Death: 22/09/1917
Place of Death:
Cause of Death:
Memorial Panel: 178
Cemetery or Memorial Details: 29 The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial Belgium
Next Of Kin:
Place Of Enlistment: Parkes, NSW
Native Place:
Notes: KEELEY, Cpl. William David, 2038. 5th Coy. Machine Gun Corps. 22nd
Sept., 1917.
Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army


-----Original Message-----
From: Prasser, Smedley [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 3:13 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [HV] Request Please

Hello Isabelle
Do you have a mention of William David Keeley in that book
He was from Parkes, son of William David Keeley and Eliza nee Connell
Ernene Smedley
----- Original Message -----
From: "Isabelle Alaban" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 10:00 AM
Subject: RE: [HV] Request Please


> Hi Jennie,
>
> I have a book - Never a Backward Step, which is the history of the 33rd
> battalion AIF. Most soldiers were from NSW country areas and trained in
> Maitland. It lists all soldiers in that battalion and your s was not
> listed. The nominal role is the way to go.
>
> Cheers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: margm [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 7:40 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [HV] Request Please
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: 11 June 2002 21:32
> Subject: [HV] Request Please
>
>
> > person was born in the
> > Hunter Valley though. I am trying to find the
> list of soldiers who were
> > killed in the First World War, to check if he
> went to the War, as I have a
> > feeling he did, can somebody please help me, I
> am checking a Thomas E.
> > Hallam, b. abt 1869.
> Dear Jennie
>
> At 46 he would maybe be abit too old ????? But
> easy to check as the Nominall rolls are on line
> on the Australian War Memorial site
> www.awm.gov.au
> These take a minute or so to load . These records
> also on fiche in many libraries
>
> Bye
> Marg Morters
> Beautiful Central Coast of NSW
> Australia
>
>
>

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