| 词条 | William Keys |
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|name= Sir William Keys |image= |image_size= |alt= |caption= |birth_date= 2 February 1923 |death_date= {{Death date and age|2000|05|03|1923|02|02|df=yes}} |birth_place= Lidcombe, New South Wales |death_place= Queanbeyan, New South Wales |placeofburial= |nickname= |allegiance= {{flag|Australia}} |branch= Australian Army |serviceyears= |rank= Captain |unit= |commands= |battles= Second World War
|awards= Knight Bachelor Companion of the Order of Australia Officer of the Order of the British Empire Military Cross |spouse = {{marriage|Dulcie Beryl Stinton|12 September 1946}} |children = 3 |laterwork= President of the Returned and Services League (1978–88) }} Sir Alexander George William "Bill" Keys, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100%|sep=,|AC|OBE|MC}} (2 February 1923 – 3 May 2000) was an Australian veteran and a long-serving president of the Returned and Services League (RSL). Keys was born in Sydney on 2 February 1923 and grew up on his family's farm at Bombala.[1] He enlisted in the military in 1940 and served with the Second Australian Imperial Force in New Guinea. He was injured at the Battle of Tarakan, and was invalided home for the rest of the war. He also served in the Korean War with the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, although he was also wounded in that conflict.[2] He received the Military Cross in 1952.[3] Before the Korean War, Keys had been elected to the New South Wales council of the RSL (1947), and he became national secretary of the RSL in 1961, rising to the presidency and retaining it until 1986.[3] Keys, who also served as international president of the Federation of Korean War Veterans Associations, was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1970 and Companion of the Order of Australia in 1988. He was knighted in 1979. Personal lifeKeys married Dulcie Beryl Stinton at St Phillip's Church of England, Auburn on 12 September 1950. The couple had met on the Orion, on a voyage to England in June the previous year.[4] He died at home in Queanbeyan of cancer in 2000.[3][5] His widow, Lady Keys, died aged 94 on 7 April 2018, survived by their three daughters.[6] References1. ^{{citation|url=http://www.hansard.act.gov.au/hansard/2000/week05/1333.htm|title=Death of Sir William Keys AC Kt Cr OBE MC|date=10 May 2000|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312152313/http://www.hansard.act.gov.au/hansard/2000/week05/1333.htm|archivedate=12 March 2016|first=Kate|last=Carnell|author-link=Kate Carnell|deadurl=no|work=ACT Legislative Assembly Hansard}} {{RSL National Presidents}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Keys, William}}2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LA20000504051|title=Death of Sir William Keys|publisher=Parliament of New South Wales|date=4 May 2000}} 3. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/35930596?versionId=45731137|title=Papers of Sir William Keys|publisher=National Library of Australia}} 4. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18173434 |title=Lieutenant Weds On Eve Of Departure For Korea |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=35,173 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=13 September 1950 |accessdate=11 April 2018 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}} 5. ^{{citation|url=http://www.hansard.act.gov.au/hansard/2000/week08/2545.htm|title=Death of Sir William Keys AC Kt Cr OBE MC|date=29 August 2000|work=ACT Legislative Assembly Hansard|first=Greg|last=Cornwell|author-link=Greg Cornwell|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110404043039/http://www.hansard.act.gov.au/hansard/2000/week08/2545.htm|archivedate=4 April 2011|deadurl=no}} 6. ^{{cite news|title=DULCIE BERYL KEYS|url=http://tributes.smh.com.au/obituaries/smh-au/obituary.aspx?pid=188698925|accessdate=11 April 2018|publisher=Sydney Morning Herald|date=11 April 2018}} 9 : 1923 births|2000 deaths|Australian Army officers|Australian Knights Bachelor|Australian military personnel of the Korean War|Australian military personnel of World War II|Companions of the Order of Australia|Australian Officers of the Order of the British Empire|Australian recipients of the Military Cross |
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