Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Tare da barkewar Yaƙin Duniya na Farko, Keeling ya sami kwamiti a matsayin jami'i a cikin Sojojin Indiya na Jami'ai. Ya yi aiki a yakin Mesopotamiya, kuma ya kasance a lokacin da Kut ya mika wuya.
da Birtaniya a hannun Ottoman sojojin. Bayan mika wuya, ya yi aiki a matsayin fursunonin yaki a Turkiyya har zuwa lokacin da ya tsere, wanda daga bisani ya sauka a Bolshevik Rasha. Bayan dawowarsa Ingila, ya yi aiki a matsayin shugaban reshe na musamman (wanda ke da alhakin Turkiyya da Bulgaria) a cikin Babban Jami'in Burtaniya don ba da damar jami'ai su tsere. An ba shi lambar yabo ta Soja a watan Oktoba 1918. Ya wallafa labarinsa a matsayin "Adventures in Turkey and Russia" a 1924.