Name
Noel Keith
4 Jan 1884
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/05/1917
33
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CITE BONJEAN MILITARY CEMETERY, ARMENTIERES
VIII. D. 1.
France
Headstone Inscription
IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY
UK & Other Memorials
Aldenham School Memorial, Aldenham, London Stock Exchange Memorial Roll, 1914-1918, Private Memorial, Noel Keith, Hurley, Berkshire
Pre War
Noel Keith born to Herbert Keith, stockbroker, and Jessie (nee Hancock) on 4 Jan 1884. There was a younger sister, Patricia, born in 1887. After school at Aldenham he followed his father’s profession of Stockbroker until the outbreak of war.
Wartime Service
He enlisted as a Private 876 with Inns of Court OTC and went to France 14 Jul 1915 having been commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, to Lieutenant 22 Jan 1915. He served with Army Cyclists Corps and 8th Battalion Kings Liverpool Regiment.
Noel was possibly serving as a Captain and also with the Machine Gun Corps when he was killed (22 May 1917) as notice of his promotion was gazetted 7 Jun 1917
Additional Information
Mr G Keith, 18 Southampton St., Holborn, WC 1, ordered his headstone inscription: “IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY”
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
