Waterford WW1 lookups available

[MacGearailt]

Hi Tom, I'm looking for a Thomas Keohan / Keoghan from Newtown in Tramore, who was 29 on the 1911 census, died in WW1. Can you help?

[enfield]

KEOHAN, THOMAS. Rank: Seaman. Regiment or Service: Royal Naval Reserve. Unit: H. M. S. "Goliath. ” Age at death; 34. Date of Death: 13-May-1915. Service No: 4299B. H. M. S. "Goliath" was sunk by three torpedoes from German destroyer ‘Muvanet-I-Milet’, she blew up and capsized immediately taking 570 of her 750 crew including the Captain to a watery grave. Ten Waterford men died on the ‘Goliath’ that day. Supplementary information; Son of Laurence and Mary Keohan, of Newtown, Tramore; husband of Dora Keohan, of Newtown, Tramore, Co. Waterford. Grave or Memorial Reference: 8 on the Plymouth Naval Memorial, UK.

[MacGearailt]

Thanks again, Tom.

[enfield]

Happy to help.

[MacGearailt]

I think his brother, James Keohan may have died in the same year. Can you check it out?

[enfield]

There was another, Keohan, a Patrick Joseph, who died on the "Hawke" on his birthday in 1914. I have not found any James though.
 Cheers.
 Tom.

[MacGearailt]

Thanks all the same.

[MacGearailt]

Hi Tom, I have a couple more for you. These are distant cousins and I don't if they lived or died. McKeown, Richard (Private, Leicester Hire Regiment) and his brother McKeown, (Mr.) 10th Canadian Mounted Rifles. The first name of the second one is possibly James or Leo. The name is often spelt Mckeon.

[enfield]

Here is the only one in the Waterford War Dead.


McKEON/McKEONE, JOHN HENRY. Rank: Sergeant. Regiment or Service: Cheshire Regiment. Unit: 16th Battalion. Age at death; 35. Date of Death: 22-April-1917. Service No: W/405. Born in Waterford. Enlisted in Port Sunlight, Cheshire while living in Rock Ferry, Cheshire. Killed in Action. Supplementary information; Son of William and Eleanor McKeone, of Waterford; husband of Annie McKeone, of 31, Brunswick St, Roch Ferry, Cheshire.
From De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour.
…13th (Service) Battalion (Wirrall), The Cheshire Regiment. Son of William McKeone, of Waterford, Groom, by his wife, Elenor, daughter of William Thorpe; and stepfather to Private R. Thompson (q.v). Born Kilfane, Tomastown, County Kilkenny, 11-November-1882. Educated at the Model School, Waterford. Was a Labourer. Served in the South African War, 1899-1902 (Queen’s and king’s medals). Volunteered for foreign service after the outbreak of the European War, and joined the Wirrall Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment, 04-September-1914. Served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from September-1915, until 26-April-1916, when he was wounded and sent to England. Returned to France, 08-March-1917, and was killed in action at St Quentin, 27-April following. Buried there. He married at Dublin, 08-August-1908, Annie (31, Brunswick Street, Rock Ferry, Co. Chester), widow of James George Thompson and daughter of William Weatherup of Dublin.
Grave or Memorial Reference: III. E. 13. Cemetery: Chapelle British Cemetery, Holnon, in France.