Robert Scott-Kerr
Brigadier General Robert Scott-Kerr DSO (2 November 1859 – 25 November 1942) was a British Army officer.
After being educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge,[1] he was commissioned in the 24th Regiment of Foot in 1879, transferring shortly thereafter to the Grenadier Guards. He saw service in the Zulu War, where he fought at the Battle of Ulundi, the Sudan Campaign and the South African War, where he was mentioned in despatches and awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO).[2]
On his return from South Africa, he was in July 1902 appointed second in command of the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards,[3] and from 1904 to 1908 he commanded the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards.
On the outbreak of the First World War he took command of 4th (Guards) Brigade in the British Expeditionary Force. He was wounded on 1 September, commanding 4th Brigade in a rearguard action during the Retreat from Mons, and returned to England. The injuries proved so severe that he never again held a field command; he commanded a brigade in the Home Forces for the remainder of the war, before retiring in 1919.
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- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27359. p. 6310. 27 September 1901.
- ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Monday, 28 April 1902. (36753), p. 8.
- Obituary in The Times, 26 November 1942.
- SCOTT-KERR, Brig.-Gen. Robert. (2008). In Who Was Who 1897-2007.
- Robert Scott-Kerr, by John Bourne. Centre for First World War Studies.
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- People educated at Eton College
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Grenadier Guards officers
- British Army personnel of the Anglo-Zulu War
- British Army personnel of the Mahdist War
- British Army personnel of the Second Boer War
- British Army generals of World War I
- Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
- 1859 births
- 1942 deaths
- South Wales Borderers officers
