Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of eight awarded to Warrant Officer Class 1 A. Kerr, Canadian Army Service Corps and Princess Louise Dragoon Guards

Military Medal, G.V.R. (30090 Dvr. A. Kerr, No. 1 Coy. 1/D.T. Can. A.S.C.); 1914-15 Star (30090 Dvr. A. Kerr, Can. A.S.C.); British War Medal 1914-20 (30090 Dvr. A. Kerr, C.A.S.C.); Victory Medal 1914-19, unnamed; Jubilee 1935 (R.S.M. (W.O.1) Alex Kerr, M.M., P.L.D.G.); Coronation 1937 (R.S.M. (W.O.1) Alex Kerr, M.M., 4th P.L.D.G.) these privately engraved; Colonial Auxiliary Force Long Service, G.V.R. (S.S.M. (W.O. Cl. II) A. Kerr, M.M., P.L.D.G.); Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Canada (R.S.M. (W.O. Cl. I) A. Kerr, M.M., P.L.D.G.) mounted for display, some with contact marks, nearly very fine and better (8) £550-650

M.M. London Gazette 11 April 1917.

Citation reads, ‘This man after being wounded in the arm by a piece of shell on 11 April 1917, in the afternoon, and having his arm placed in a sling, resumed his place of work on the driver’s seat and drove with one hand until his work was completed, three hours afterwards. After handing over his team he was taken to the Field Ambulance and has not yet returned to duty’.

Alexander Kerr was born in Glasgow on 8 June 1896. Moving with his parents to Ottawa, Canada, in 1908, he enlisted into the 1st Division Train, C.A.S.C. on 19 September 1914. Serving on the Western Front he was wounded in action on 11 April 1917. For his service in bravely carrying on his duties, he was awarded the Military Medal. He was discharged from the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 31 December 1921. On his return to civilian life in Ottawa, he enlisted into the 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards. Attaining the rank of Regimental Sergeant-Major, he was awarded the Jubilee Medal of 1935, the Coronation Medal of 1937 and two long service medals. His obituary also states that he was a piper with the Cameron Highlanders in Ottawa. In civilian life he served for some 35 years as a member of the Treasury Branch of the Department of Transport. Retiring in June 1957, he died in April 1958.

With a quantity of copied service papers and other research.