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

You may find other local memorials on the North East War Memorials
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Announcement of his daughter's marriage in the Sunderland Daily Echo dated 19 October 1937.

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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

UK Register of Soldiers Effects (from Ancestry)

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 UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919
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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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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
Find A Grave Memorial# 56092073

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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Medal card:
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

sorry ellison wallis kerr hes name

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