Walter Cyril Keddy (b. 1892) Walter Keddy was born in Nova Scotia.((WWI Reg. #1015571. May 29, 1916 in Sidney. Library and Archives Canada, Attestation Paper.)) When the First World War was declared, Keddy was on Herschel Island. He and William [Wilmot] Annett mushed by dog team to Dawson, via Fort Yukon, and then took the first boat of the season to go out to enlist.((Michael Gates, //From the Klondike to Berlin: The Yukon in World War I.// Madeira Park B.C.: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd. 1917: 16.))