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|Surname and forenames=Kerr John
|Army number=4274183
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=Research suggests birth registered in Glendale, Northumberland in Q1 1914, mother's maiden surname Simpson.
|Age=29 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served B.E.F.?  Served Malaya.  Taken Prisoner of War by the Japanese.  Embarked Singapore 9th October 1942.  Believed to have died as a PoW - subsequently confirmed.  DIED 14/11/1943 - location Taitchu, Formosa.
|Company/Battery=Z Company.
|Task or role=Not yet known.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not so far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Yes - captured 15/2/1942 at Singapore when the force was surrendered.
|Died/Killed in action=DIED 14/11/1943 - cause of death Beri Beri.  Initially interred on Formosa in Grave 62/KPM/6/1/17 Mantoroku Cemetery (2B-4-4).  Re-interred 21/7/1947 in Grave V.K.7. Sai Wan War Cemetery, Hong Kong.  Headstone inscription reads:- "AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER HIM".  Probate granted 23/4/1945 at Newcastle upon Tyne to David William Kerr, Omnibus Driver (Possibly John's father).
|Home address=Son of William and Florence Kerr.  Husband of Joan Douglas Kerr of Bridlington, Yorkshire.  Wife lived at Milfield, Wooler. 
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