Russell Kerr served with the Pathfinder Force of the Royal Air Force during World War II, and moved to England in 1948.
11 Facts About Russell Kerr
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Russell Kerr became a director of the Town and Country Planning Association and an air charter executive.
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Russell Kerr was a national executive member of the Association of Supervisory Staff, Executives and Technicians from 1964.
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Russell Kerr contested Horsham in 1951, Merton and Morden in 1959 and Preston North in 1964.
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Russell Kerr was Member of Parliament for Feltham from 1966 to 1974, and for Feltham and Heston from 1974 to 1983.
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Russell Kerr lost his seat in that year's landslide defeat for Labour, to the Conservative Patrick Ground.
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Russell Kerr was a democratic socialist and was named chairman of the Tribune Group in 1969.
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In 1946, Russell Kerr married Shirley Huie in Australia; they had two children and later divorced.
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Russell Kerr was married to Anne Kerr from 1960 to her death 1973.
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Russell Kerr was a Labour MP Rochester and Chatham from 1964 to 1970.
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On 15 November 1983, after a period of declining health, Russell Kerr died in Twickenham, at the wheel of his car.