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Welcome Bay farmer Samuel James Keam was killed in action in France on 7 June 1917. On 16 April 1917 he had written home to his sister and loved ones: "I hate writing when I know that all I say will have to be read by my own Officer and so I will try to write now a few loving lines from that restraint. Blow the Censor. I do not like the idea of him having to see everything besides there are hundreds of things one would like to talk about and which would interest you but there is a curtain drawn behind which none but soldiers must look."
Samuel James Keam (1887-1917)
Born Brunner 26 July 1887
Son of Samuel and Phillippa
Fiancé to Alice Ridley
Farmer, Welcome Bay
Known as Jim, Preacher, Debater
29902 - Corporal
Auckland Infantry Battalion
1st Battalion
Enlisted 2 July 1916
Killed in action
7 June 1917, France
Aged 28
Samuel James Keam
