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Tauranga rubber planter John Andrew Bathurst Kerr was killed in action in Gaza, Palestine, on 19 April 1917.
John Andrew Bathurst Kerr (1879-1917)
Born in Gloucestershire, England 1879
Son of Captain Howard Kerr of Gate Pa and his wife Mary
John's brother James Kerr also lived in Tauranga.
Rubber Planter
2818 - Trooper
1st Anzac Battalion
Imerial Camel Corps
No. 2 Company
Enlisted 21 January 1916
Killed in action
19 April 1917, Gaza, Palestine
Aged 39
Mr James Kerr has received word that his brother, John, second son of the late Capt Kerr of Gate Pa, who enlsited at Sydney with the Australian Light Horse was killed about April 19th last. The late Mr Kerr took part in several engagements in Egypt, and was reported missing some time ago (Bay of Plenty Times, 15 June 1917)
The Field Service Report details the events surrounding John's death: 'Killed 19.4.1917 in the advance to, and while in temporary occupation of a Turkish Redoubt, and owing to the position being vacated and not subsequently re-occupied the dead were not able to be buried' (via National Archives of Australia).
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