Robert Kerr
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Service No: N/A
Date of Death: 07/06/1917
Theatre of Death: Unknown
Age: 28
Regiment/Service: London Regiment (19th Bn.)
Cemetery: Bedford House Cemetery
Additional information: Son of John and Elizabeth Allison Kerr; husband of Isabella W Crichton Kerr of ‘Belgrave’, 8 Millrigg Road, Rutherglen. Born at Glasgow.
Rutherglen Lore information: Husband of Isabella Crichton, Belgrave, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Mrs. Isabella Wood Kerr.
1901 census information:
Address: 46 Gilmour Street, Hutchesontown.
Father: John (38) manufacturing chemist, born about 1863 in Glasgow.
Mother: Elizabeth (38) born about 1863 in Glasgow.
Brother: John (16) manufacturing chemist, born about 1885 in Glasgow.
Brother: William (13) office boy, born about 1888 in Glasgow.
Self: Robert (11) born about 1890 in Glasgow.
Brother: Alexander M (9) born about 1892 in Glasgow.
Brother: James H (1) born about 1900 in Glasgow.
1911 census information:
The family are living in Rutherglen. The family comprises John 48, Robert 21, Alexander 19 and James 11.
Newspaper transcript – Glasgow Officer Killed. Lieutenant Robert Kerr, London Regiment, who has been killed, was the third son on Mr John Kerr, manufacturing chemist, Mathieson Street, Glasgow, S.S. He joined the 5th Scottish Rifles immediately war broke out as was gazetted to the London Regiment in November, 1915. Lieutenant Kerr married Miss Isabella Crichton, daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter Crichton, Belgrave, Rutherglen in October, 1914. He was a member of his father’s firm.
Also commemorated on the memorial in Rutherglen Old Parish Church and on the family headstone in Rutherglen Cemetery.
Headstone transcript – Also Robert, their son beloved husband of Isabella Crichton killed in action at Messines Ridge, 7th June 1917.