Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lieutenant-Colonel H. J. Jarrett-Kerr, Indian Army Service Corps

1914 Star, with clasp (Capt. H. J. Jarrett-Kerr, S. & T. Corps.); British War and Victory Medals (Maj. H. J. Jarrett-Kerr) ‘Jarrett-Kerp’ on B.W.M.; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1919-21 (Maj. H. J. Jarrett-Kerr, I.A.S.C.) good very fine (4) £200-£240

Herbert Jarrett Kerr was born on 26 January 1883, to Herbert Jarrett Kerr and Henrietta (née Vidal). His father was a planter. He was educated at Bedford Modern School and commissioned into the 5th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers (Militia) on 12 September 1900, and served with the regiment in South Africa (Queen’s medal with 5 clasps). He obtained a regular commission in the Prince of Wales’ Leinster Regiment on 8 January 1904. He changed his name from Kerr to Jarrett-Kerr by Deed Poll on 25 November 1912, in compliance with the will of Emily Jarrett. Transferred, after a period of attachment, to Supply and Transport Corps, Indian Army, in 1912, and served in France and Flanders with the Lahore Divisional Supply Column from 18 August 1914. Served from November 1915 in Egypt, Mesopotamia and India; retired from Indian Army Service Corps in January 1932, Subsequently worked in Delhi in a private capacity on Rural Reconstruction, encouraging rural industries. Served in the Home Guard in Cheltenham during the second war and died at Haslemere, Surrey, on 5 June 1968. Sold with copied research including several Annual Confidential Reports.