Reginald Kerr

Sir Reginald Kerr
Born	22 April 1897
Died	1 November 1974 Lyme Regis, Dorset
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1914–1949
Rank	Major General
Battles/wars	First World War, Second World War
Awards	KBE, CB, MC

Major General Sir Harold Reginald Kerr KBE CB MC (1897–1974) was a senior British Army officer during the Second World War.

Biography

Born on 22 April 1897, Reginald Kerr was educated at Bedford School and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He received his first commission in the British Army in 1914, serving in France and Flanders during the First World War, and subsequently as part of the allied army of occupation in Germany until 1920. During the Second World War he was on the British Army Staff in Washington, between June 1941 and November 1942, Major General in charge of Administration, Eastern Command, between December 1942 and May 1943, and Director of Supplies and Transport at the War Office, between 1943 and 1946. He was Major General in charge of Administration, Far East Land Forces, between 1946 and 1948, and retired from the British Army in 1949. He was Chairman of the British Waterways Board between 1955 and 1962.^[1]

Major General Sir Reginald Kerr was invested as a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1945, and as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1946.^[2] He died in Lyme Regis, Dorset, on 1 November 1974.^[3]

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