Captain George Kerr, V.C. Plaque

CAPTAIN GEORGE FRASER KERR. V.C., M.C., M.M., 1895-1929

Born at Deseronto, Kerr attended schools here and in Toronto. With the outbreak of the First World War he enlisted on September 22, 1914, with the 3rd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force and arrived in France the following February. He won the Military Medal at Mount Sorrel on June 13, 1916, the Military Cross at Amiens on August 18, 1918 and a Bar to the latter award at Queant later that summer. The Victoria Cross, the British Empires highest decoration for valour, was awarded to Kerr for his exemplary daring and leadership at Bourbon Wood on September 27, 1918. He outflanked a machine-gun position and later, far in advance of his troops, he rushed a strong point and single-handed, captured four machine-guns and thirty-one prisoners.

Erected by the Archeological and Historical Sites Board of Ontario