Gazette Information: Gazette Issue 29802, Victoria Cross,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29802/supplement/10395. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to award the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- No. 101465 Private John Chipman Kerr, Canadian Infantry. For most conspicuous bravery. On 16th September 1916 at Courcelette, France, during a bombing attack he was acting as bayonet man, and, knowing that bombs were running short, he ran along the parados under heavy fire until he was in close contact with the enemy, when he opened fire on them at point blank range, and inflicted heavy loss. The enemy, thinking they were surrounded, surrendered. Sixty-two prisoners were taken and 250 yards of enemy trench captured. Before carrying out this very plucky act one of Private Kerr's fingers had been blown off by a bomb. Later, with two other men, he escorted back the prisoners under fire, and then returned to report himself for duty before having his wound dressed.
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Gazette Information: Gazette Issue 29802, Victoria Cross,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29802/supplement/10395. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to award the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- No. 101465 Private John Chipman Kerr, Canadian Infantry. For most conspicuous bravery. On 16th September 1916 at Courcelette, France, during a bombing attack he was acting as bayonet man, and, knowing that bombs were running short, he ran along the parados under heavy fire until he was in close contact with the enemy, when he opened fire on them at point blank range, and inflicted heavy loss. The enemy, thinking they were surrounded, surrendered. Sixty-two prisoners were taken and 250 yards of enemy trench captured. Before carrying out this very plucky act one of Private Kerr's fingers had been blown off by a bomb. Later, with two other men, he escorted back the prisoners under fire, and then returned to report himself for duty before having his wound dressed.