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Name John Chipman Kerr No. 101465
VC Issue No. 755 Awards VC
Regiment Canadian Expeditionary Force, Alberta Regiment, 49th (Edmonton) Battalion
Later
Now Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Private
Place Of Birth Fox River, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Place Of Death Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada
Buried/Location Ashes Mountain View Cemetery, Prince Edward Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Veterans Division, Abray Section, Block 5, Plot 8, Lot 12
Gazetted 26 October 1916
VC Presented 5 February 1917 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
Headstone, Mountain View Cemetery, Prince Edward Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Plaque, Dunvegan, Alberta, Canada
Named On War Memorial, Port Greville, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Kerr Mountain, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, British High Commission, 80 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
By The Way…
Mount Kerr was named after him in 1951, one of 6 Mountain's in the VC Range in the Jasper National Park, Canada
VC Held By
Provincial Museum of Alberta, 12845 - 102nd Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
BORN 11 January 1887
DIED 19 February 1963 AGE 76
VC Won 16 September 1916 AGE 29
Place VC Won Courcelette, Somme, France
War/Campaign First World War 1916
