Unit Name

Name/Rank/Details

EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT

·     Private Ernest Keep, Regiment number: 42118

ESSEX REGIMENT

·     Private H. Keep, Regiment number: 37093

·     Lance Corporal William Alexander Keep, Regiment number: 14219 born Middlesex

GRENADIER GUARDS

·     Private Charlie Keep, Regiment number: 20347 Killed  1916

·     Corporal Percy William Keep, Regiment number: 20346 killed 29 March 1918 buried at Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery, Foncquevillers, grave I. J. 25.

HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT

·     Private Arthur E. Keep, Regiment number: 1407

·     Private Arthur Edward Keep, Regiment number: 355944

·     Sergeant Frank Keep, Regiment number: 1301

·    Private Vivian Keep, Regiment number: 241770

·     Second Lieutenant W. F. Keep, killed 7 June 1917 aged 35 buried at Bus House Cemetery grave A. 20.

·     Private William J. Keep, Regiment number: 8805

HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY

·    Private Walter Fisher Keep, Regiment number: 3515

INFANTRY BATTALION

·     Private Wilfred Keep, Regiment number: 8/1345

KING'S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS

·     Rifleman Arthur E. Keep, Regiment number: R28586, killed 19 December 1916 buried Essex Farm Cemetery, grave II. Y. 11.           

·     Private Frank Cecil Keep, Regiment number: C1420

·     Private George Robert  Keep, Regiment number: 11341

·     Private Harry T. Keep, Regiment number: 1308

·     Rifleman Victor Harry Keep, Regiment number: 43923 killed 3 October 1918 aged 31 buried at Hooge Crater Cemetery grave XX. D. 16.                                   

LABOUR CORPS

·     Corporal James T. Keep, Regiment number: 536000

·     Private Sidney L. T. Keep, Regiment number: 199319

LANCERS

·     Private Charles Keep, Regiment number: 8526

·     Private Percy Keep, Regiment number: GS11441 Killed 1916

·     Private William Keep, Regiment number: 17048

LEICESTERSHIRE REGIMENT

·     Private John Keep, Regiment number: 33053

LIVERPOOL REGIMENT

·     Second Lieutenant Cecil Evelyn Keep

LONDON REGIMENT

·     Private Albert Edward Keep, Regiment number: 2788, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), killed 1 July 1916 commemorated on The Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 9 D and 16 B

·     Rifleman Alfred James Keep, Regiment number: 2421 killed 14 January 1917 aged 23 buried at Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery grave 771.

·    Private Arthur C. Keep, Regiment number: 453206

·     Corporal Arthur Keep, Regiment number: 7132

·    Corporal Arthur Keep, Regiment number: 703371

·     Private Francis T. Keep, Regiment number: 305653

·    Private Frank Arnold Ophie Keep, Regiment number: 536753

·     Second Lieutenant John Drummond Keep, London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade)  killed 13 October 1918 buried at Chapel Corner Cemetery, Sauchy-Lestree grave F. 18.

·    Acting Colour Sergeant John H. Keep, Regiment number: 653

·     Private Joseph A Keep, Regiment number: 4410

·    Private Joseph Albert Keep, Regiment number: 231725 London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) killed 26 October 1917 commemorated at The Tyne Cot Memorial, panel 148 to 150.

·     Rifleman Leonard Keep, Regiment number: 8856 London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles) killed 10 September 1916 commemorated at The Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 13 C

·     Private William George Keep, Regiment number: 2023 London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) killed 10 March 1915 Commemorated at The Le Touret Memorial Panel 44.

·     Private William Henry Keep, Regiment number: 997

MACHINE GUN CORPS

·    Lance Corporal Arthur Keep, Regiment number: 29170 Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) killed 7 March 1917aged 21 buried at         grave O. VII. K. 1, ST. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen

·     Sergeant Harry J. Keep, Regiment number: 102405

·    Private Sidney W. J. Keep, Regiment number:  153231 Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) Killed Monday, 8 December 1919. Aged 21. Son of Frederick and Minnie Keep of West Street, Comberton,  Cambridgeshire, He is commemorated at the War Memorial in St Mary's Church Comberton, and on the Baptist Memorial at the Baptists chapel. Buried at Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt. Grave G.34.

·     Sergeant W. Keep, Machine Gun Corps late East Kent Regiment, Regiment number: 3742

·    Private William Robert Keep, Regiment number: 129247

MIDDLESEX REGIMENT

·     Private Albert J. Keep, Regiment number: 3752

·     Private Alfred Keep, Regiment number: L/10722

·     Private AlfredVictor Keep, Regiment number: G/1220 born Middlesex

·     Private Archie B. Keep, Regiment number: 293482

·    Corporal Edward W. Keep, Regiment number: 5715

ü Private Frederick George Keep, Regiment number:  6240 Short Service 18 November 1914 – 27 March 1915 Discharged having made a false statement of age on enlistment. He gave his age as 19 when he was only17. Born28 July 1897 son of Frederick George Keep, See Royal Horse Artillery below. 

·     Private George Henry Keep, Regiment number: G/10055, 13th Bn. Middlesex Regiment. Born in Wimbledon in 1898 and killed 28 September 1915, aged 19. Son of William and Rose Keep, of 227, Haydons Rd., Wimbledon. George enlisted in Kingston and joined a service battalion of the Middlesex Regiment. He was lost at Loos after being in France for just three weeks. He left a wife E. Keep (nee Green), and a three month old son. They lived at 80, Lavender Avenue, London Rd., Mitcham, Surrey.  He is commemorated at the War Memorial on the Lower Green, Mitcham, South London, and at the Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 99 to 101 - LOOS MEMORIAL. He had two brothers: Joseph see below, and Robert who was in the Royal Marines; see below.

·     Lance Corporal Joseph G. Keep, Regiment number: 10893 elder brother of George Henry Keep, above. He was a regular who fought with the 4th Bn. Middlesex Regiment at Mons and survived the war. He was awarded a DCM, being gazetted on 10 March 1916.

·     Private Leonard Keep, Regiment number: 3294

·     Private Percy R. Keep, Regiment number: 3525

MILITARY FOOT POLICE

·     Lance Corporal Jim Keep, Regiment number: P/12908

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE REGIMENT

·     Private Charles G. Keep, Regiment number: 31082

·     Private Frederick Keep, Regiment number: 16167 killed 1 July 1916 buried at Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz, grave V. S. 7.

v Lance Corporal George William Keep, Regiment number: 40212. Son of Mark and Louisa Keep born in 1888 baptised on 16 Jun 1891 in Desborough, Northamptonshire, brother Private Joseph Henry Keep, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, see below

·     Second Lieutenant Herbert Stanley Keep

·     Private William Keep, Regiment number: 13279 killed 9 May 1915 Commemorated on The Ploegsteert Memorial Panel 7       

NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT

·     Private Frederick John Keep, Regiment number: 41206 killed 21 March 1918 buried at Bellicourt British Cemetery, grave Sp. Mem. B. 11.    

OXFORDSHIRE AND BUCKINGHAMSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY

·     Private Cecil Keep, Regiment number: 2020

·     Corporal George P. Keep,Regiment number: 26693

·     Private Harold Keep, Regiment number: 240043

·     Private Walter Keep, Regiment number: 22109

·     Private William Keep, Regiment number: 266269

RAILWAY COMPANY ROYAL ENGINEERS

·    Sapper William H. Keep, Regiment number: 14685

RIFLE BRIGADE

·     Private Benjamin Keep, Regiment number: 0/282

ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS

·     Private Arthur Edward Keep,Regiment number: 121953

·     Private Frank Keep, Regiment number: 5544

·     Private George Keep, Regiment number: 31762

·     Corporal Acting Sergeant Harry H. Keep, Regiment number: 54098

·    Private Henry Keep, Regiment number: 41317

·     Private Herbert F. Keep, Regiment number: 87434

·    Private James G. Keep, Regiment number: 52366

·     Private T. W. Keep, Regiment number: 1870

·    Private Thomas William Keep, Regiment number: 534148

·     Private William Samuel Keep, Regiment number: WE200