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🌺 The Three Brothers Who Never Came Home — The Keddie Family of Essex 🌺 In the quiet years before the Second World War, Frederick and Annie Emily Keddie of Downham, Essex, were raising three boys. Three sons who would grow up to wear uniform… serve their country… and tragically, lose their lives in that service. Their first son, Wallace Arthur Robert Keddie, was born in 1917. A year later came Richard George Damyon Keddie in 1918. And in 1922, the youngest, John Maitland Keddie, completed the

11 reactions | Tonight on C-SPAN 3 - a Nantucket Historical Association interview with "In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex” author Nathaniel Philbrick. Watch at 6:30 or 10:30pm ET. | American History TV | Facebook