Photo: B. Chandler
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.
Acknowledgments to S.C. Knox.
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.
See Amble A13.16
Ian Hook has submitted the following:
My father was the sole survivor of the crash 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.
George John Stewart Kerr is remembered in Chevington on C27.04
