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Colonel FREDERIC WALTER KERR

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gordon Highlanders

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 31 October 1914

Age 47 years old

Buried or commemorated at

YPRES TOWN CEMETERY EXTENSION

III. AA. 4.

Belgium

Ypres Town Cemetery Extension, Belgium: Headstone of Collonel F. W. Kerr, DSO (courtesy of Stuart Phillips - January 2016)

Photographer: Stuart Phillips

  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. as G.S.O.1 1st Div. H.Q. Staff General Staff
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Twice Mentioned in Despatches, Distinguished Service Order
  • Additional Info Son of Admiral Lord Frederic Kerr and Lady Frederic Kerr (nee Maitland); husband of Lady Helen V. L. Kerr, of Lavender Cottage, Breamore, Salisbury.
  • Personal Inscription IN LOVING PROUD AND HONOURED MEMORY
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Buried or commemorated at

YPRES TOWN CEMETERY EXTENSION
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 673
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