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KERR, Thomas Jackson
(Service number 15/116)

Aliases
First Rank	Segeant	Last Rank

Birth

Date	23/04/1895	Place of Birth	Waimate

Enlistment Information

Date	20 October 1914	Age	20 years 6 months
Address at Enlistment	16 Kensington Street, Wellington
Occupation	Commercial traveller
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs Florence KERR, P. O. Box 823, Wellington
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Headquarters (attached)
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	2nd Reinforcements
Date	14 December 1914
Transport	Verdala or Willochra or Knight of the Garter
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals	1914-1915 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date	22 April 1919	Reason	No longer physically fit for War Service on account of illness contracted on Active Service.

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	12 June 1957	Age	62 years
Place of Death	Middlemore Hospital, Auckland
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Thomas Jackson Kerr, born on 23 April 1895 at Waimate, was the eldest in the family of Thomas and Florence Caroline Eliza (née Keddell) Kerr.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [26 November 2016]

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