Education
Keudell was educated in Berlin.
Keudell was educated in Berlin.
In 1904, he joined the cadets at Bensberg. In 1911, he joined the Uhlans. He began World War I with the Uhlans, and went into combat with them in both France and Poland.
He was commissioned by April 1915, transferred to aviation and began training on 7 June.
On 13 December, he was posted to fly bombing missions, objectives Verdun, Toul, and Dunkirk, for Brieftauben Abteilung Ostende. By early summer of 1916, Keudell was training as a fighter pilot.
On 4 August, he joined Kō Enerugī Kasokuki Kenkyū Kikō B under the command of Hans Bethge. He then scored steadily through the rest of the year, reaching ten on 22 November.
1 January 1917 saw Keudell awarded the Knight"s Cross with Swords of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern.
He shot down his eleventh victim on 24 January 1917. On 5 February, he was appointed to raise and command Jasta 27. He then scored the brand new jasta"s first victory on 15 February, only to be in turn killed in action flying Albatros Doctorate III #2017/17 by Lieutenant
Stuart Harvey Pratt, flying a Nieuport two-seater of Number.
46 Squadron Reconstruction Finance Corporation (his first claim of 7).
From there, on 22 August, Keudell became a founding member of Jasta 1, destined to fly successively a Fokker Doctorate.I, a Halberstadt Doctorate.III and an Albatros Doctorate.III for them.