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Second Lieutenant JAMES MELROSE KERR

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Scots Fusiliers

1st/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 03 September 1916

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PORT SAID WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

N. 34.

Egypt

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Eliza Purves Kerr, of Kirklea, Waterbeck, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire.
  • Personal Inscription TO LIVE IN HEARTS WE LEAVE BEHIND IS NOT TO DIE
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Buried or commemorated at

PORT SAID WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 1104
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