order to collect a proven debt. The jury also had to consider the evidence of a convicted fraudster against that of a decorated war hero, and they took only 45 minutes to find Kerr not guilty. World War II Kerr returned to the Royal Navy at the start of WWII in a training role. He sustained a fractured femur and his records indicate that he was fitted with artificial limb. He continued shore based sedentary duties and was eventually retired in 1945. Family Kerr married Innes Margaret Annie Chapman (1880–1953) in 1908 and they had one child, Mark Barrington Kerr (1910–1982). After Margaret’s death in March 1953, Kerr remarried to Dorothea Blanchard Muir (Reeves) Martin-smith (1893–1970), in April of the same year. Kerr was living at St. Benets, Buckfast, Devon, when he died 29 October 1965 in the Torbay Clinic, St. Lukes Road, Torquay. Probate at Exeter on 17 December was to Dorothea Blanchard Kerr, his widow. They are buried together in St Mary, Buckfast Abbey burial ground, Buckfast, Devon, England. Notes References 1886 births 1965 deaths Companions of the Distinguished Service Order Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France) Royal Navy officers of World War I Royal Navy officers of World War II