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can anyone please find where my grandads grave is he was killed at the somme 27 11 1917 i had all my papers stolen an need to put it all back together

sorry ellison wallis kerr hes name

KERR, ELLISON WALLIS

Rank: Private
Service No: 27173
Date of Death: 27/11/1916
Regiment/Service:Border Regiment 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: I. F. 23.
Cemetery: SERRE ROAD CEMETERY No.2

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First name(s) Ellison W
Last name Kerr
Service number 31521, 27173
Rank Private
Corps King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, Border Regiment
Service record Soldier Number: 31521, Corps: King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Service record 2 Soldier Number: 27173, Rank: Private, Corps: Border Regiment
Archive reference WO372/11
Archive reference description Campaign Medal Index Cards and Silver War Badge Cards
Country Great Britain
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Record set World War One British Army medal index cards

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Birth: unknown
Death: Nov. 27, 1916


Note: Private, Border Regiment. Age: Unknown.

Burial:
Serre Road Cemetery No. 2
Beaumont-Hamel
Departement de la Somme
Picardie, France
Plot: I. F. 23.

Created by: CWGC/ABMC
Record added: Aug 06, 2010
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Name: Ellison Wallis Kerr
Birth Place: Sunderland
Death Date: 27 Nov 1917
Death Place: France and Flanders
Enlistment Place: Sunderland
Rank: Private
Regiment: Border Regiment
Battalion: 2nd Battalion
Regimental Number: 27173
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre
Comments: Formerly 31521, Y.L.I.

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First name(s) Ellison W
Last name Kerr
Service number 31521, 27173
Rank Private
Corps King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, Border Regiment
Service record Soldier Number: 31521, Corps: King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Service record 2 Soldier Number: 27173, Rank: Private, Corps: Border Regiment
Archive reference WO372/11
Archive reference description Campaign Medal Index Cards and Silver War Badge Cards
Country Great Britain
Image link http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D3225639
Record set World War One British Army medal index cards
Category Military, armed forces & conflict
Subcategory First World War
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Name: Ellison Wallis Kerr
Gender: Male
Death Date: 27 Nov 1916
Death Place: France
Rank: Private
Regiment: Border Regiment
Regimental Number: 27173

Pay due of £3 12s 11d was paid to his widow Genevieve in 1917. War gratuity of £3 paid to her in 1919.

Ellison Wallis Kerr in the England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index, 1837-1915
Name:Ellison Wallis Kerr
Spouse Name: Genevieve Gooding
Registration Year:1908
Registration Quarter:Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration district:Sunderland
Inferred County:Durham
Volume:10a
Page:1069

Announcement of his daughter's marriage in the Sunderland Daily Echo dated 19 October 1937.

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/keepsafe/asset/details/14882703

He is commemorated in the Sunderland Holy Trinity Book of Remembrance.

You may find other local memorials on the North East War Memorials
Project website http://www.newmp.org.uk/index.php

thank you all for helping me well done each and every one of you