Alexander Kerr

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Alexander AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Kerr AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Alex AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 9/2079 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Pono

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Whānautanga mai

15 Feb 1889 AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs M. Kerr (mother), care of Mrs A. Sinnell, Cecil Road, Wadestown, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

Messines AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 9/2079 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 04 Mar 1916-08 Apr 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 47 or HMNZT 48 AWMM Vessel was Willochra or Tofua AWMM Trooper AWMM 10th Reinforcements, Otago Mounted Rifles, D Squadron AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

7 Jun 1947 AWMM Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM
Killed in action at Messines AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Private AWMM
Otago Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion AWMM

Alexander Kerr was the son of Mary Kerr of 8 Upper Rata Rd, Hataitai, Wellington, and the late William Kerr.

New Zealand at the Front (a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division) 1917 issue, p.141. AWMM

Matenga

7 Jun 1917 AWMM
Age  28 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Died of wounds AWMM

Urupā

Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France AWMM III. C. 296. AWMM

Pānui Matenga

New Zealand Herald Roll of Honour, 7 June 2017

Pvt. 9/2079 First Battalion, Otago Mounted Rifles.
Killed in action at that bloodiest of places Messines on 7 June 1917. (100 years ago today). Aged just 28.
Remembered always with love by his descendants The Murrays, The Olausens, The Bradleys, The Bycrofts, The Dominicks and The Hepplestons. RIP Alex. AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R18056652
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/200212/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/200212
  Further Reference
• New Zealand at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.
  https://archive.org/details/newzealandatfron00lond/newzealandatfron00lond
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Byrne, A. E. Official History of the Otago Regiment, NZEF in the Great War, 1914–1918. Dunedin: J. Wilkie, 1921.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  26: 6
• The New Zealand Herald
  Roll of Honour. 7 June 2017
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 4: Includes portrait
• New Zealand at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.