Private 11311 Benjamin Walter KEATLEY

5th Battalion, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

Killed in action in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, Somme, France and Flanders, 15th September 1916 age 26

Commemorated Theipval Memorial, Somme, France. Pier and Face 10A and 10D

Awarded 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals

Son of George and Elizabeth Keatley (nee Rollason)

Brother of Private 28498 John Keatley

Links to Relevant Information

CWGC Page for Pte Keatley

Thiepval Memorial

Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

Other Information

1890c born at Over Whitacre and baptised 14th December 1890 (Find My Past)

1901 Census, living at Ansley with parents and siblings

1911 Census living at 363 Arbury Road, Stockingford, Nuneaton with parents and siblings and employed as a coal miner at Newdigate Colliery

1916, 13th October, death reported in Coventry Standard and Coventry Herald