Signalman David Wimborne KEITH (Did not matriculate)

2 W/T Company, Royal Corps of Signals
Born 18 March 1922 in Wimborne, Dorset
Killed while on active service 30 June 1943, aged 21
Buried at Bone War Cemetery, Annaba.

David Keith was the son of The Revd Canon Archibald Leslie Keith, vicar of Wimborne Minster, and Margaret Layard, née Reeves.

He was educated at St Edward’s School, Oxford, where he sang with the school choir, was a talented violinist, and rowed in the School's 1st Rowing VIII in 1940 and 1941 - he was also Head of his House and therefore qualified as a School Prefect.

He was elected as a Classical Exhibitioner in 1941, but joined the Royal Corps of Signals as a Private before matriculating. He was quickly promoted as he found a niche as an instructor of others and was attached to the Regiment's Intelligence Division.

He was involved in an accident on 30 June 1943 in Algeria, when the truck he was a passenger in was in a collision with a Finnish Army vehicle and he died on the spot from injuries incurred.

Three of his six brothers were also killed in the war.