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Personal data

• Name KERR
• Initials EB
• First name EDWARD BOURNES
• Family First son of The Rev William Francis Kerr, Rector of Treeton Parish Church (Anglican) Rotherham, Yorkshire, and his wife, Elizabeth; four brothers, George, Ivan, Dermot and Denis; one sister, Eileen
• Education Marlborough College, Wiltshire

Military service

• Rank Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit 12th Bn. Rifle Brigade
• Division - Brigade 60th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 20th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career to France on 22 July 1915

Death

• Wounded Potijze Wood; 23 May, shot by a sniper while standing in a trench;
• Type of wounds Gunshot wounds abdomen, died 1.45 am in n°10 C.C.S.;
• Date of death 26 May 1916
• Died at the age of 18
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery VI - A - 2

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