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Private OSCAR KEAST

Service Number: 5768
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Infantry, A.I.F.

14th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 11 August 1917

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MESSINES RIDGE BRITISH CEMETERY

I. B. 44.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of Elizabeth Jane Williams (formerly Keast), of "Vermont", Railway Crescent, Maryborough, Victoria, Australia, and the late John Keast. Native of Hay, New South Wales.
  • Personal Inscription RESPONSIVE TO HUMANITY'S CALL A GALLANT ACTION MARKED HIS FALL
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Buried or commemorated at

MESSINES RIDGE BRITISH CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1539
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