Later in the war he was gassed, wounded and reported dead while serving in Belgium and finally invalided back to Australia.

[1] In the 1930s he was once again reported dead from the pulpit of his local church but when friends went to his home to offer their condolences they found him mowing his lawn.

[2] On 20 December 1918 he married Clara Ethel Clifford[1] (died 1978)[3] in England and together had three sons and three daughters.

[2] It is thought that the effects of the gassing and injuries he received in World War I hastened his death.

[4] Keogh was an alderman on the Brisbane City Council, representing the ward of Fortitude Valley from 1925 until 1931.