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SIR TERENCE KEYES DISTINGUISHED SOLDIER Independent Cable Service (Received February 28, 5.5 p.m.) i LONDON, Feb. 27 The dea.th is announced of BrigadierGeneral Sir Terence Keyes, y9unger brother of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes. Sir Terence .Keyes formerly was an officer of the Indian Army, from which he retired in 1932. He was born in Maj% 1877, a soil of the late General Sir Charles Keyes. Educated at H'aileybury College, and Sandhurst, he entered the Army in 1897. He saw considerable service in India, and in Mesopotamia (Irak) in the Great War, and was attached _to the Russian Army in Rumania in 1917. Sir Terence was Brigadier-General, General Staff, South Russia, and the Army of the Black Sea, 1919; and deputy High. Commissioner and officiating High Commissioner, South Russia, 1919-20. He served in Baluchistan 1921-28, and was British Envoy at the Court of Nepal, 1928; Resident at Gwalior, 1928-29; Agent to the Governor-General in States of Western India, 1929; and Resident at Hyderabad, 1930-33. v A knighthood was conferred upon Sir Terence (K.C.1.E.) in 1933. He was married to Edith Beatrice, daughter of Lieutenant-General C. A. McMahon, and they had throe sons and two daughters.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23284, 1 March 1939, Page 12
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198OBITUARY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23284, 1 March 1939, Page 12
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