Keesey, John Howard
Previously reported missing at Arnhem, now officially reported died as prisoner of war - Capt. John Howard Keesey, R.A.M.C. British Medical Journal 3 Feb. 1945
Biographical
| Surname(s) | Keesey |
|---|---|
| First name(s) | John Howard |
| Date of birth | 1916 |
| Place of birth | Kendal Registration District |
| Family details | Son of George Ernest Howard Keesey, and Violet Marian Keesey; husband of Susette Keesey, of Glasshouse, Waterford, Irish Republic. |
| College | St Thomas' Hospital |
| Dates at college | 1937-1940 |
| Dept / course | Natural Science Tripos |
| Qualifications | M.B. (Cantab.). |
| Military unit | Royal Army Medical Corps, attd. 1st Airborne Div |
| Service number | 199991 |
| War / conflict | World War Two (1939-1945) |
| Date of death | 02-Oct-44 |
| Age at death | 28 |
| Rank at death | Captain |
| Place of death | Arnhem |
| Cause of death | Died of wounds as a Prisoner of War after being shot by a German sentry when trying to escape from an ambulance train at Apeldoorn |
| Burial place | Becklingen War Cemetery, Germany |
| Commemoration(s) | St. Thomas’ s Roll of Honour in the chapel; In St. Mark's Church, Natland, Cumbria, there is a window to the memory of George Ernest Howard Keesey and John Howard Keesey |
| Notes | His home address in 1937 was Fisherflat, nr. Kendal, Westmorland The engagement is announced between Lieutenant John Howard Keesey R.A.M.C., son of the late Captain G. E. Howard Keesey (killed in action 1916), and of Mrs Howard Keesey, Fisherflat, Kendal, and Susette, youngest daughter of the Rt. Rev. the Lord Bishop of Cashel and Mrs Harvey, Bishopsgate, Waterford, Eire. St. Thomas’s Hospital Gazette 1941 |
| Sources | St Thomas’ s Hospital Medical School Records, King’ s College London Archives; Commonwealth War Graves Commission; British Medical Journal; http://www.unithistories.com/officers/1AirbDiv_officersK.htm |