Next of kin plaque: Private Frank Keighery, 24th Battalion, AIF

Bronze next of kin plaque, showing on the obverse, Britannia holding a laurel wreath, the British lion, dolphins, a spray of oak leaves and the words 'HE DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR' around the edge. Beneath the main figures, the British lion defeats the German eagle. The initials 'ECP', for the designer Edward Carter Preston appear above the lion's right forepaw. A raised rectangle above the lion's head bears the name of the dead soldier 'FRANK KEIGHERY'. A checker's mark is impressed between the lion's rear right paw and tail.

Born in Dandenong, Victoria in 1894, Francis Edward 'Frank' Keighery was employed as a journalist and printer at the Lang Lang Guardian newspaper when he enlisted in the AIF on 20 March 1915, using the name Frank Keighery. After initial training he was posted a private, service number 445, to B Company of the newly raised 24th Battalion. The battalion left Melbourne aboard HMAT Euripides in 10 May.

After training in Egypt 24th Battalion landed at Gallipoli on 4 September. It first went in to the line at Lone Pine on 10 September. Keighery was killed by a Turkish shell the following day and was buried in the Brown's Dip Cemetery. In 1923 his remains were exhumed, together with others from Brown's Dip, and reburied in the Lone Pine Cemetery.

This commemorative plaque was sent to his father, Edward William Keighery, in August 1922.