Thomas Nichols KEYTE

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KEYTE, Thomas Nichols

Service Number:	889
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd Division Medium and Heavy Trench Mortar Batteries, AIF
Born:	Mount Arapiles, Victoria, Australia, 11 August 1891
Home Town:	Northampton, Northampton, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 26 May 1916, aged 24 years
Cemetery:	Ration Farm Military Cemetery, la Chapelle-D'Armentieres Plot I, Row G, Grave 9 Headstone Inscription "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS TO LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR US",
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Northampton WW1 Roll of Honour, Northampton War Memorial

World War 1 Service

29 Jun 1915:	Involvement Private, 889, 28th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: ''
29 Jun 1915:	Embarked Private, 889, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Fremantle
26 May 1916:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 889, 2nd Division Medium and Heavy Trench Mortar Batteries, AIF, Killed in action

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Biography contributed by Daryl Jones

Son of William and Mary Ann KEYTE, of Hutt, Western Australia.

Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

His brother, 2932 Pte. Charles Cottrell Keyte 48th Battalion AIF, was later killed in action at Messines in Belgium, 10 July, 1917, aged 22.

Another brother, 2946 Private Francis Garrett Keyte, 16th Battalion AIF, was three times officially wounded, twice with shell shock at Pozieres during August 1916, and severe shrapnel wounds during February 1917. He was returned to Australia during early 1919.

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