Not
much is known about John Keeble. He was from Crail
in Fiife, Scotland. He was born in 1922, the son of
Percy and Grace Keeble.
John
joined the British army and became a sapper with the
Royal Engineers. At some point he joined the Special
Air Service and conducted operations behind enemy
lines.
In
April 1945, John and other SAS men, found themselves
behind enemy lines on the Veluwe, a Dutch National
Park, dotted with small villages. They were probably
dropped by Stirling bombers in the night 3/4
April 1945. This night several S.A.S. teams were
dropped in central Holland. In all 43 men were
supposed to be dropped, but due to bad weather only
17 actually were.
They were part of
operation Keystone, a Special Air Service patrol
consisting of a number of jeep-mounted and airborne
teams that operated south of IJsselmeer in the
central Netherlands in early April, 1945.
