Private 10/160 Edmund KEENE

10th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment

Killed in action in France and Flanders, 18th September 1916, age 24

Buried St.Vaast Post Military Cemetery, Richebourg-L’Avoue, Somme, Pas-de-Calais, France. Grave ref: III.P.18

Awarded 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals

Son of John and Mary Ann Keene

Links to Relevant Information

CWGC Page for Pte Keene

St. Vaast Post Military Cemetery

East Yorkshire Regiment

Other Information

1893 born in Hinckley, Leicestershire

1901 Census, living at 89 London Road, Hinckley with his parents and siblings

1914 enlisted at Hull, with his home address as 52 Earls Road, Nuneaton

1916 13th October, death reported in a single line in the Coventry Standard and on 14th October in the Coleshill Chronicle