9152 Lieutenant Herbert Gladstone Kerr was born in Pickering, Ontario on 16 October 1886*, the son of George Kerr and Catherine McKay.

He had eight brothers and sisters and eight half-brothers and sisters. A younger brother, Donald Edgar Jack Kerr (Service No. 27211) also served in WWI.

He joined The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada militia battalion around 1909 and in 1910 he participated with H Company on the trip to England.

Kerr worked as a clerk when he enlisted with his fellow QOR sergeants on 22 September 1914 with the 3rd Battalion CEF as a Sergeant.

On 9 May 1915, he was promoted to Lieutenant.

Just sixteen days later Lieutenant Kerr was killed in action aged 28, on 25 May 1915, the last day of the Battle of Festubert. As he has no known grave, he is memorialized at the Vimy National Memorial.

*His attestation paper said 1887 but his birth registry was 1886.

See also A Wooden Mallett and Six Sergeants.