26/07/1915- Completed Medical Examination Narrogin WA
3/08/1915- To No. 1 Depot Battalion ” B ” Company Blackboy Hill as Private
28/09/1915- To 12th Battalion 11th Reinforcements Blackboy Hill
24/11/1915- To Overseas Training Base Zeitoun , Egypt ex Australia
3/03/1916- Joined 52nd Battalion Tel-el-Kebir Egypt ex Training Battalion Zeitoun
1/06/1916- Promoted Lance Corporal Serapeum Egypt
5/06/1916- Proceeded Overseas Marseilles France ex Alexandria Egypt
12/06/1916- Appointed Lance Corporal in the field France
3/09/1916- Wounded in Action France ( Gunshot Wound Neck )
4/09/1916- Admitted 3rd Canadian Stationary Hospital Boulogne France ex 1st Canadian Field Ambulance
7/09/1916- Evacuated/Admitted Norfolk War Hospital Thorpe Norwich England
31/10/1916- Granted Leave England ex Hospital
28/11/1916- To No. 1 Command Depot Perham Downs England ex Leave
1/12/1916- To No. 4 Command Depot Wareham England ex Perham Downs
22/12/1916- To Infantry Draft Depot Perham Downs ex Wareham
31/12/1916- Proceeded Overseas 4th Australian Division Base Depot Etaples France ex Folkestone England
18/01/1917- Rejoined 52nd Battalion in the field France ex Base Depot
6/03/1917- Promoted CORPORAL in the field France
28/04/1917- Promoted SERGEANT in the field France
20/06/1917- Detached to 2nd Anzac School of Instruction France
26/07/1917- Rejoined Battalion ex Army School of Instruction France
12/01/1918- Granted Leave England
26/01/1918- Admitted Military Hospital Buttervant England ( Sick )
22/02/1918- Rejoined 52nd Battalion in the field France ex sickness
7/04/1918- Appointed ACTING COMPANY SERGEANT MAJOR in the field France & Awarded MILITARY MEDAL
16/05/1918- Transferred 51st Battalion in the field France & Reverts to Rank SERGENT
10/06/1918- Wounded in Action France ( Shell Wound Shattered Leg )
11/06/1918- Admitted 6th Australian Field Ambulance in the field France
11/06/1918- Died of Wounds Received in Action France
AWARDED MILITARY MEDAL
Date of Recommendation – 5 May 1918
Commendation :- ” During the counter attack near Villers-Brettoneux on the night of 24/25th April 1918, 5 of the Officers of his Company became casualties, and the remaining Officer was detached with another Company. The command of the Company fell upon Sergeant O’KEEFE. His vigorous action, coolness under intense machine gun fire from the left flank – which was for a time quite exposed – and fine display of initiative in a very trying situation, were in a very large measure, responsible for the successful consolidation of the left of the Battalion sector “.
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette – 4/02/1919
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette – Page 130, Position – 109
Date of London Gazette – 13 September 1918
Location in London Gazette – Page 10778, Position 99.
Service Medals Awarded
1914/1915 Star – No. 6594
British War Medal – No. 22221
Victory Medal – No. 22054
Memorial Plaque & Scroll – No. 246748
Memorial Inscription
Yarloop War Memorial WA.