Alfred Butars KERR

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KERR, Alfred Butars

Service Number:	158
Enlisted:	20 February 1915, Liverpool, New South Wales
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	2nd Field Artillery Brigade
Born:	Dunedin, New Zealand , 20 October 1889
Home Town:	Glebe, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Engineer
Died:	Natural causes, Sutherland, New South Wales, 29 January 1960, aged 70 years
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
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World War 1 Service

20 Feb 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 158, Liverpool, New South Wales
13 Jun 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Sergeant, 158, 12th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Suevic, Sydney
13 Jun 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, 158, 12th Light Horse Regiment, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: ''
29 Aug 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, 158, 1st Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli
26 Apr 1918:	Promoted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant
26 Jul 1918:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant
7 May 1920:	Discharged AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade

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Biography contributed by Horizon Christian School

Alfred Butars Kerr (son of Mrs Cecilia Kerr, Auckland, New Zealand) was born on the 20th of October 1889 near Dunedin, New Zealand. As a natural born British subject and unmarried man, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Suevic with the 12th Light Horse Regiment on 13 June 1915 and would be fighting at Gallipoli by the end of August.

Promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in 1918, after Alfred had moved on to artillery units.

Alfred returned to Australia in January 1920 and was finally discharged on the 7th May 1920

He died in Sydney in 1960 aged 70

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