In Chevington Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Grave of:

1558163 Warrant Officer
G.J.S. Kerr
Pilot
Royal Air Force
1st December 1943 age 22

Dearly loved
by his friends
and respected
by all who knew him.
His ever sorrowing mother
and his sister Chris.

George John Stewart Kerr was the son of John and Georgina Kerr, of High Ongar, Essex.

Northumberland Aviation Diary: Aviation Incidents from 1790-1999 ; Derek Walton; Norav Publications; 1999; ISBN 0 9536189 0 0

“In This Quiet Lane” Chevington and Broomhill in World War Two ; J.H. Hardy; 200; Glen Graphics; ISBN 1 900038 75 7

Air Crash Northumberland Gray, Corbett, Shipley & Anderson, 2008, Countryside Books, ISBN 978 1 84674 112 8 gives account of the crash of a Stirling at Amble in 1943 killing five children. One of the crew, Warrant Off. George Kerr was one of the crew who died.

Ian Hook has submitted the following:
My father was the sole survivor of the crash listed below and badly injured- flying again within 10 weeks.
All crew killed and five children.
My father was decorated as a result of this sad incident.

See Amble A13.16

Acknowledgments to S.C. Knox.

George John Stewart Kerr is remembered in Chevington on C27.03, which has no names. A list was included in the Unveiling Programme, on C27.04  and in a RAF Book of Remembrance  page 63.