Unit Name

Name/Rank/Details

ROYAL ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS

v Private Joseph Henry Keep, Regiment number: 2496, when Joseph answered the call to enlist, the Recruiting Sergeant asked him what his occupation was, he replied a shoemaker. The Sergeant then produced some sprig nails from his pocket and asked Joseph to show him how he would make a boot. Instinctively Joseph threw the nails into his mouth, and the Sergeant stopped him straight away, and announced that he was now a member of the Royal Army Ordnance Corp. Many other recruits were claiming to be shoe makers to avoid going to the front, so the small test was devised to see who was telling the truth. A shoemaker always holds his nails in his mouth to free both his hands to use them. So Joseph spent the War doing his day job. Although he was later shipped out to Istanbul to fight over there and increase the military presence in the region. Son of Mark and Louisa Keep born 1879 in St Albans, Hertfordshire, baptised on 25 March 1883 at Desborough, Northamptonshire, brother George William Keep, who served as a Lance Corporal in the Northamptonshire Regiment, see above.

ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS

·    Private Harry Keep, Regiment number: M2/203700

·     Major Thomas Bettsworth Keep,

ROYALBERKSHIRE REGIMENT

·     Private Albert Keep, Regiment number: 202630 killed 4 May 1917 buried at grave V. A. 30, Wancourt British Cemetery

·     Private Amos John Keep, Regiment number: 20233 killed 14 November 1916 aged 24 Commemorated at The Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 11 D.

·     Private Charles Keep, Regiment number: 8600

·    Private Edward Keep, Regiment number: 10337

·     Private Ernest Harry Keep, Regiment number: 9698 killed 16 December 1914 buried at Wimereux Communal Cemetery grave I. C. 6A.    

·     Private Frederick Keep, Regiment number: 8794

·     Private George H. Keep, Regiment number: 200225

·     Private George Keep, Regiment number: 26562

·     Private Harry Keep, Regiment number: 9698

·     Private Igal James Keep,Regiment number: 35171

·     Private Percy Keep, Regiment number: 19671 killed 24 October 1916 buried at Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-L'abbe grave V. C. 14.

·     Lance Corporal William Keep, Regiment number: 7887 killed 25 May 1916 buried at Barlin Communal Cemetery Extension grave I. B. 45.

·     Lance Corporal William Robert Keep, Regiment number: 200600  

ROYAL ENGINEERS

·     Sapper Charles Keep, Regiment number: 1724

·     Company Quarter Master Sergeant Charles Keep, Regiment number: 138120

·     Driver Edward T. Keep, Regiment number: 162972

·    Driver Ernest Alfred Keep, Regiment number: 219889

·     Corporal Frederick W. Regiment number:  78545

ü Sapper Herbert Edward Keep, Regiment number: 548241(changed from 1675) Son of Samuel Edward Keep born 1886 Frederick George Keep's cousin, see below

·     Sapper Jesse Keep, Regiment number: 236999

·     Sapper Reginald Walter Keep,Regiment number: 322370

·     Driver Edward John Keep, Regiment number: 1601

ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY

·    Gunner Albert Victor Keep, Regiment number: 10660

·     Gunner Charles Keep, Regiment number: 62615

·    Driver Frederick G.  Keep, Regiment number: L/28488

·     Gunner Frederick J.  Keep, Regiment number: 166245

·    Gunner Frederick Keep, Regiment number: 183859

·     Driver Frederick M. Keep, Regiment number: 79251

·    Driver George Keep, Regiment number: 110516

·     Driver Harry Keep, Regiment number: 87815

·    Driver Harry Keep, Regiment number: L/15201

·     Driver Henry J. Keep, Regiment number: 181391

·    Driver James Keep, Regiment number: L/41729 killed 18 July 1916 aged 19 buried at Merville Communal Cemetery, grave XI. B. 45.

·    Gunner Maurice Keep. Regiment number: 245636

·     Gunner Norman M. H. Keep, Regiment number: 243489

·    Driver Reginald Keep, Regiment number: 76008

·     Bombardier Richard G. Keep, Regiment number: 42096

·    Gunner Sidney W.  Keep, Regiment number: 2194

·     Regimental Sergeant Major William Keep, Royal Field Artillery attached Northumberland Brigade, Regiment number: 51273

·     Driver William H. Keep,

v Gunner William Simms Keep,Regiment number: 96677, son of George and Emma KEEP born 1892 in Wilstead, Bedfordshire         

ROYAL FUSILIERS

·     Private Frederick G. Keep, Regiment number: GS/41406

·     Private Lawrence Keep, Regiment number: L12150

ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY

·     Captain Arthur Corrie Keep

·     Gunner William J. Keep, Regiment number: 204311

ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY

·    Driver Archibald J. Keep, Regiment number: 492

ü Saddler/Gunner Frederick George Keep, Regiment number: 80038 Born 9 July 1875. Member of the British Expeditionary Force, see WWI Gallery below. Brother William Henry Keep, West Kent Regiment, see below, father of Private Frederick George Keep, Middlesex Regiment, see above, and cousin of Sapper Herbert Edward Keep,  Royal Engineers, see below

·    Driver Percy V Keep, Regiment number: 74121

ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT

·     Private Albert Keep, Regiment number: G/12862nd Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment. 1st Regular Division. Born 1885 in Wantage aged 31. Son of Mr & Mrs Keep of Letcombe Regis, Berkshire. Husband of Mrs. M. E. Keep of Durnford House, Cuckfield. Killed in action on the Somme 23rd July 1916 aged 31. He enlisted in Haywards Heath. He is commemorated at the War Memorial & the memorial tablet in Holy Trinity Church, Cuckfield, Sussex. Commemorated on The Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 7 C.

·     Lieutenant George Robert Keep

ROYAL TANK CORPS

·     Second Lieutenant Norman Pristo Keep

ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT

·     Second Lieutenant Arthur S. Keep

ROYALWEST SURREY REGIMENT

·     Honorary Second Lieutenant Alfred Lawrence Keep

SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS

·     Lance Corporal Joseph F.Keep, Regiment number: S/12430

SOMERSET LIGHT INFANTRY

·     Private Sidney Keep, Regiment number: 41790

SUFFOLK REGIMENT

·    Lance Corporal Charlie (Charlie) Keep, Regiment number: 15353 -11th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment was killed in action on Saturday, 1 July 1916. Born at Bourn, Cambridgeshire. No known grave. He is commemorated at the War Memorial at Bourn and on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France Pier and Face 1 C and 2 A.

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SURREY YEOMANRY

·     Private Douglas W. Keep, Regiment number: 1735

THE QUEEN'S REGIMENT

·     Private Charles F. Keep,Regiment number: 30719

·     Private E. Keep, Regiment number: 6077303

·     Private Frederick G. Keep, Regiment number: 35974

·     Private George H. Keep, Regiment number: 53409

·     Private George Henry Cecil Keep, Regiment number: 30171

·     Private John James Keep, Regiment number: G/39988 The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) killed 10 August 1917 commemorated at The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial panel 11 - 13 and 14.     

·     Private Johnathan G. Keep, Regiment number: G/25912

·     Private Walter J. L. Keep,Regiment number: G/23262

·     Private William Keep, Regiment number: G/37770                The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) killed 21 October 1917 aged 25 Commemorated at The Tyne Cot Memorial Panel 14 to 17 and 162 to 162A.               

VOLUNTARY AID DETACHMENT

·    Dorothy May Keep

WEST KENT REGIMENT

ü Private William Henry Keep, Regiment number: 2886 born 5 March 1882, 24 Nov 1899 - 31 March 1920 occupation Militiaman. William was taken Prisoner of War Brother of Frederick George Keep.       See Royal Horse Artillery above.

WEST RIDING REGIMENT

·     Private Alfred T. Keep,Regiment number: 8030

WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT

·     Private Albert Keep, West Yorkshire Regiment, Regiment number: 16/549

·     Private Christopher Keep, West Yorkshire Regiment, Regiment number: 62502

·    Private James Keep, West Yorkshire Regiment, Regiment number: 35625

WILTSHIRE REGIMENT

·     Sergeant /Acting Regimental Quarter Master Sergeant Alfred Frank Keep, Regiment number: 6652

·     Private William Keep,Regiment number: 36271