Mark Kerr (Royal Navy officer)
| Mark Edward Frederic Kerr | |
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Kerr in 1916
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| Born | 26 September 1864 |
| Died | 10 January 1944 (aged 79) |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Service/branch |
Royal Navy (1877–1918) Royal Air Force (1918) |
| Years of service | 1877–1918 |
| Rank |
Admiral (RN) Major General (RAF) |
| Commands held | South-Western Area (1918) Adriatic Squadron (1916–17) Royal Hellenic Navy (1913–15) HMS Hercules (1911, 1913) HMS King George V (1912–13) HMS Invincible (1908–11) HMS Implacable (1907–08) HMS Drake (1905–07) HMS Mermaid (1899–1901) HMS Bittern (1899) |
| Battles/wars |
Anglo-Egyptian War Mahdist War First World War |
| Awards |
Companion of the Order of the Bath Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Commander of the Order of the Redeemer (Greece) Grand Officer of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus (Italy) Officer of the Military Order of Savoy (Italy) |
| Other work | Writer |
Admiral Mark Edward Frederic Kerr, CB, CVO (26 September 1864 – 10 January 1944) was a Royal Navy and Royal Air Force officer during the First World War. Kerr was the Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Hellenic Navy in the early part of the First World War, Commander-in-Chief of the British Adriatic Squadron in 1916 and 1917 and was involved in the work to create the Royal Air Force in late 1917 and early 1918.
Mark Edward Frederic Kerr was born on 26 September 1864, the son of the Admiral Lord Frederic Kerr (1818–1896).
Kerr joined the Royal Navy in 1877 following education at Stubbington House School. He served in the Naval Brigade during the Egyptian War of 1882 and in Sudan in 1891, and from 1899 was in command of the destroyer HMS Mermaid, serving in the Medway Instructional Flotilla. He was appointed Naval Attache in Italy, Austria, Turkey and Greece in 1903. In 1913, he succeeded Vice Admiral Lionel Grand Tufnell as head of the British Naval Mission to Greece, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Hellenic Navy, a post he retained until 1915. As commander of the Greek Navy at the outbreak of the First World War, Kerr helped keep Greece out of the war. In 1914, while on leave from his duties as head of the Greek Navy, Kerr learned to fly, making him the first British flag officer to become a pilot. He was awarded his Aviator's Certificate no. 842 on 16 July 1914.
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