Auction Catalogue

6 & 7 December 2017

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 1388

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7 December 2017

Hammer Price:
£40

Memorial Plaque (Alexander Crerar Kerr) some corrosion to reverse and small patch of rim, good very fine £60-80

Alexander Crerar Kerr was born in Cathcart, Glasgow, on 29 October 1889, and attested for the Royal Engineers at Kirkcaldy on 6 September 1914. He served during the Great War on the Western Front from 6 July 1915 with the 65th Field Company Royal Engineers; was attached to 1st/2nd Lowland Field Company Royal Engineers, at Suvla Bay, on 25 September 1915, and was later attached to the 60th Field Company Royal Engineers, 29th Division, ‘for working searchlights’. He was advanced Acting Sergeant in December 1915, and was discharged to a commission on 22 July 1916. He subsequently served as a Second Lieutenant with 91st Field Company, Royal Engineers, 15th (Scottish) Division, and was killed in action on the Western Front on 1 January 1917. He is buried in Becourt Military Cemetery, Becordel-Becourt, France.