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Allegiance
  
United Kingdom

Service/branch
  
British Army

Name
  
Seumas Kerr


Commands held
  
4th Division

Years of service
  
1973-2006

Rank
  
Major general

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Battles/wars
  
Operation Banner Iraq War

Awards
  
Order of the British Empire

Battles and wars
  
Operation Banner, Iraq War

Major-General John Seumas Kerr CBE (born 1953) is a former British Army officer who commanded 4th Division.

Military career

Kerr was commissioned in to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in 1973. As a colonel he undertook a tour in Northern Ireland in 1995 during the Troubles for which he was awarded the CBE. He was appointed Deputy Adjutant-General in December 1999, Assistant Chief of Staff with responsibility for logistics at Permanent Joint Headquarters in Northwood in 2002 during the Iraq War and General Officer Commanding 4th Division in 2004 before he retired in 2006.

In retirement he joined the senior management of the support services arm of Carillion.

References

Seumas Kerr Wikipedia