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Name: KERR, Alexander Seton
Birth Date: 4 Mar 1898 Dirleton, East Lothian
Death Date: 14 Aug 1962 Lusaka
First Date: 1918
Profession: Planter. EA Estates
Area: Gasi, Vanga
Married: In Durban 15 Feb 1936 Annie May Helfer née Hayes b. 1898
Children: dau (1931)
Book Reference: Red 25, Red 22
War Service: Military Labour Corps
General Information:
Ancestry Passenger list 18 May 1922 Dar es Salaam-London
Ancestry As a Staff Sergeant in WO 329 of the 12202th Regiment, Military Labour Corps he supervised operations at a mica mine in BEA. Eventually found the dust unsuited to his damaged lungs (his lungs had been severely affected by mustard gas in WW1). Received his Honourable Discharge from military service, but remained in British East Africa for his health, rather than returning home to the UK. Became a mineralogist and mining prospector. Went to S. Rhodesia and became elephant hunter and hunting guide. Bought a tobacco farm in Nyasaland c. 1930.