Nickname:
Bob
Date of birth:
Saturday, 10 April 1897
Marital status:
single
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Scottish
Profession:
logger; seaman; miner; railway man
Hometown(s):
Fenwick, Scotland; Vancouver Island; Vancouver, British Columbia
Date of immigration to Canada:
Sunday, 22 May 1927
Political affiliation:
Communist Party of Canada, 1932
Prior military experience:
British Army World War II
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-02-17 - sailed via President Roosevelt
1937-03-14 - arrived
Unit:
Abraham Lincoln Battalion; Political commissar of Canadians at Albacete (Canadian Base Commissar)
Final status:
Survived; Interned during World War II; Repatriated in April 1938 with permission; died August 8, 1968.
Sources:
RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 555, ll. 58-60; NAC, M-P Collection, Cecil-Smith, V. 1, F. 16, Memoirs and Accounts of Service in Spain, Kerr, Robert, 4 pages, no date; Liversedge; Momryk; Petrou, Ancestry, Findagrave. fl 536 "Can pol. rep in Spain"
A message from Bob Kerr appears in the pamphlet They Defend World Democracy.
