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Military service
Service number:
141715
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
4th Bn.
Birth:
October 12, 1891
Hawick, Scotland
Enlistment:
July 27, 1915
Welland, Ontario
Death:
September 7, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. F. 19.
Additional information
Son of Andrew and Jane Hay Kerr, of Hawick, Scotland.
Digital gallery of Private George Kerr
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Photo of GEORGE KERR
In memory of the men joined the 76th Battalion CEF and died while serving in other Battalions. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of George Kerr
Photograph of George Kerr in civilian clothes taken at Niagara Falls, Ontario shortly after entering Canada, circa 1912. -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England, 2008
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Private George Kerr
Digital gallery of
Private George Kerr
Digital gallery of
Private George Kerr
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 113 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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SUNKEN ROAD CEMETERY, CONTALMAISON Somme, France
Contalmaison is a village in the Department of the Somme, 6 kilometres east-north-east of Albert. The Sunken Road, from which the cemetery is named, is part of the Contalmaison-Pozieres road, and the cemetery lies a little east of the road.
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