Hugh Kerr
Rank: Sapper
Service No: 2427
Place of Birth: Dunning, Perthshire
Date of Death: 22/05/1915
Theatre of Death: Gallipoli
Age: 25
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers (2nd (Lowland) Field Coy.)
Cemetery: Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery
Additional information: Son of Hugh and Isabella Kerr of 78 Mill Street, Rutherglen; husband of Elizabeth Hosie Kerr.
Soldier’s Effects information: Widow Elizabeth Kerr.
1901 census information:
Address: 36 Crescent Street, Greenock.
Father: Hugh (36) butcher, born about 1865 in Saltcoats.
Mother: Isabella (33) born about 1868 in Dunning, Perthshire
Brother: George (12) born about 1889 in Kilsyth.
Self: Hugh (10) born about 1891 in Dunning, Perthshire
Sister: Isabella (9) born about 1892 in Uddingston.
Sister: Jane (7) born about 1894 in Greenock.
Brother: Matthew (5) born about 1896 in Greenock.
Sister: Elizbeth (1) born about 1900 in Greenock.
Newspaper transcript – Mrs Kerr, 7 Polmadie Street, Glasgow, has been informed of the death of her husband, Sapper Hugh Kerr, 2nd Low, Field Coy. Royal Engineers, who was killed in action at the Dardanelles on May 22. He was 25 years of age, and was employed in Barclay, Curle’s Shipyard, Scotstoun. He leaves a widow and two children.
Nephew of David McLeish.