Daniel KERR

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Service Number:	970
Enlisted:	7 September 1914, Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	11th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Renfrewshire, Scotland, 15 November 1891
Home Town:	Bayswater, Bayswater, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Ironturner
Died:	Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 30 July 1915, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula Plot 11, Row G, Grave 25 Chaplain Rev, T.G. Robertson officiated, Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

7 Sep 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 970, 11th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA
2 Nov 1914:	Involvement Private, 970, 11th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: ''
2 Nov 1914:	Embarked Private, 970, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Fremantle

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Arrived in Australia aged 20 years

Address at the time of enlistment was C/- William Brown, Kitchen Avenue, Bayswater, WA

Father of an ex-nuptial daughter with Mary Deane name of daughter was Jennie Kerr Deane of Collins Street, Johnstone, Scotland

Son of Samuel Kerr of Williamson Place, Johnstone, Scotland

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Served an apprenticeship with Johnson, Clifton adn Wadell for nearly 5 years