Leonard Knox Keen

Aircraftman 1st Class

Conflict:

WW2

Additional Information:

Son of Samuel Harold Keen, and of Helen Jane Keen (nee Hamilton), of Auckland City.

References:

CWGC

NZ WAR GRAVES

Biographical Notes:

"(Press Assn.) LEVIN, Aug. 19. Last night an Air Force trainee, Leonard Knox Keen, of Auckland, aged 22, was struck by a car while walking along a road and sustained fatal injuries, death being almost instantaneous."

MANAWATU STANDARD, VOLUME LXII, ISSUE 222, 19 AUGUST 1942, PAGE 5

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Casualty

Service Number:

422551

Name:

Leonard Knox Keen

Rank:

Aircraftman 1st Class

Date of Birth:

Not known

Date of Enlistment:

Not known

Unit:

Royal New Zealand Air Force

Casualty Details

Cause of Death:

Motor Vehicle Accident

Date of Death:

18 August 1942

Day of Death:

Tuesday

Age at Death:

Conflict:

WW2

Embarkation Details

Text in italics supplied by Cenotaph Online, Auckland War Memorial Museum

Cemetery

Cemetery:

Drury (St. John) Anglican Church Cemetery

Cemetery Reference:

Family plot B. (Ext.) Row, Plot 4.

Cemetery Location:

New Zealand