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William John Kerr
Born April 23 1890
Died of wounds received
In France March 10 1915
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St Peter Newnham on Severn
Gloucestershire
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William John
Kerr
23rd April 1890
Chelsea, London
10th March 1915
Died from wounds received (GSW to lung) in hospital in Boulogne, France
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St Peter's churchyard, Newnham on Severn, Gloucestershire
First World War
Lieutenant
2nd Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
Also remembered on a stained glass window inside St Peter's church, Newnham on Severn, Gloucestershire. It appears that as his parents arrived in Boulogne to see him before he died and the fact that his father was an army offier that his body was allowed to be repatriated home where he was buried in Newnham
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