Keene Street in the suburb of Wigram, Christchurch

Keene Street – Named after Arthur Herbert Keene (1899- 1984). Keene was a law student of Island Bay, Wellington. He graduated from the Canterbury Flying School on 6 June 1918. In the Wigram Aerodrome subdivision by Ngāi Tahu Property Ltd where the street names are either of aircraft or taken from the list of the first 100 students at the Flight School established by Sir Henry Wigram in 1917. Named in 2012.A small amount of information from library website. I searched Papers Past and ancestry website. Great Britain Royal Aero Club Aviators Certificate has DOB 19th March 1899 and he trained in a Caudron Biplane. Received his certificate on 6th June 1918 which is interesting as there was a piece in the newspapers dated 3th May 1918 where he was requesting 3 months leave to attend Aviation School in Canterbury. His parents were Richard and Emily Keene. I managed to find two marriages for him but no divorces. First was to Doreen Margaret Bolton and the second to Florence Mary Gibbs and he possibly died in 1984 aged 85 but I struggled to find information for any of them.The houses here are mostly built in 2013 and nothing outstanding. The houses on the same side of Raukura Park look tiny and you are so close to your neighbours. Turn over in bed and your neighbours would feel it as the houses looked that close to each other.