Rate
Collector) and Bessie Mary Grounds
of 5 Wantage Road, Lee and later of
338 Lee High Road. In 1912, holding a Leathersellers’ Company
Scholarship at
the Leathersellers’ Technical College in Bermondsey, he
passed
the City and
Guilds Examination in Heavy Leather Tanning with first class honours. He
repeated this achievement in relation to Light Leather Dressing and
Leather
Dyeing in 1913 and was awarded the Leathersellers’ Company
diploma in July
of that year.
Keble joined up on 2nd September 1914 as a Private in the Public
Schools Corps.
Keble was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant into the 12th Battalion
of the
Sherwood Foresters also serving with the 4th Battalion and as Bombing
Officer
to the 2nd Battalion. Whilst serving with the 2nd Battalion, he took
part in an
attack on 15th September 1916 in support of the 1st Battalion of the
Leicestershire Regiment on a German position known as the
Quadrilateral
Redoubt near Ginchy on the Somme.
Keble was killed as his Battalion
was
moving forward to their start line aged 21. He has no known grave but is
commemorated on the
Thiepval
Memorial (Pier and Face 10 C 10
D and 11 A)
and on the memorial at St Margaret’s Church Lee.]
