Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Francis and Sarah Keeling of 1, Orchard Square, Nottingham, and the husband of Lily Keeling.

Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Coalville Times article, Friday January 15th, 1915

COALVILLE SOLDIER MISSING

WIFE OFFICIALLY NOTIFIED

Mrs Keeling, of 69, Long Row, Ashby Road, Coalville, has received the following communication from the military authorities:

Dear Madam. – I regret to inform you that a report has been received from the War Office to the effect that No. 9102, Pte. Dick Keeling, of the Northumberland Fusiliers, was posted as missing on November 8th. Should he subsequently rejoin, or any further information be received concerning him, such information will be once communicated to you.

Yours faithfully
N. Payne
Officer in charge of records.

It is added that the term missing does not necessarily mean that the soldier is killed or wounded and he may be an unwounded prisoner or temporarily separated from his regiment.

Mrs Keeling is the wife of the soldier referred to and has one child. Pte. Keeling was formerly a player in the Coalville Town Football Club and was seen with his regiment in France by Jim Smith a few days before the date when he has been missing. We trust that he may eventually turn up safe and sound. Before leaving Coalville for the war, he worked in the South Leicestershire Colliery.

Research undertaken and submitted (including photograph from the Coalville Times) by Andy Murby, October 2017.