Name
Ernest Henry Keeble
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/09/1918
17
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Boy 2nd Class
J/19525
Royal Navy
H.M.S. “Powerful”
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HODDESDON CEMETERY
I. 2. 24.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon, St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon
Pre War
Born 23 Feb 1901 in 204 Farrant Avenue, Wood Green, London and baptised on 3 May 1901 in St Marks, Noel Park son of Charles and Lucy Annie Keeble and was living in New River Engine House, Essex Road, Hoddesdon in 1911.
Wartime Service
H.M.S. "Powerful" was a 14,000-ton armoured cruiser launched in July 1895. By the outbreak of war "Powerful" was old and had had most of its armament removed making it a troop transport and accommodation ship. He died from disease in East Stonehouse, Devon.
Additional Information
Ernest's headstone (not CWGC) bears the inscription:
ERNEST H KEEBLE DIED SEPTEMBER 30TH 1918 AGED 17 YEARS
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Phil Holland
