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Thomas Llewellyn KEEN
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- Thomas Llewellyn KEEN. Military Cross, Cadet (Warrant Officer) 210, Australian Flying Corps died 12th March 1919 aged 28. Son of Thomas Benion Keen and Mary Keen, of 57, Heathfield Avenue, Dover. At rest in Leighterton Church Cemetery, Gloucestershire.
Some notes form his army records.
He joined up on the 30 October 1914 aged 24 and 4 months, occupation, station overseer. He was posted as Trooper 210, 7th Light Horse, rose to the rank of RSM, and fought overseas. He was born at Canterbury, Kent and his father Thomas was his next of kin. On the 24th May 1918 he was transferred to the A.F.C. and sent to Minchinhampton.
London Gazette dated 16th September 1918 of W.O. T L Keen, 6th Training Squadron, A.F.C. M.C. No 210 R.S.M.
Citation to his M.C. reads. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in maintaining communications between squadrons (Light Horse) To do this he had to expose himself to exceptionally heavy rifle and machine gun fire and it was owing to his recourse in taking and sending messages that the regiment was kept together.
On the 12th March 1919 he was killed in a flying accident. He was flying solo over Miserden Gloucestershire, being a misty day he dived through a dense low lying mist to ascertain is wherabouts and crashed into a trunk of a fallen tree in Miserden Park, near Sheepscombe, Gloucestershire. He was instally killed aged 28.
