Guest Writer Alistair Kerr

Alistair Kerr was born in Scotland in 1953. His parents were a medical doctor who served in the Royal Army Medical Corps: latterly as a university lecturer in Medicine, and a nurse (SRN). He read Law and History at the University of Edinburgh. He became a civil servant with the British Foreign Office, with which he had five overseas postings: two at the British Embassy, Paris.

Among other roles, he has been the Foreign Office’s Parliamentary Clerk (coordinating the Ministry’s Parliamentary business), the Environment Attache in Paris, and has served as Charge d’Affaires in the absence of his Ambassador. He speaks French, German and Spanish. He lives a retired existence in rural Lincolnshire and carries out research into his favourite subjects. These include environmental and energy issues, history, heraldry and genealogy.

His relations on his father’s side include the notorious nineteen-thirties murderer, Dr Buck Ruxton. His mother is descended from a long line of Cumbrian farmers.

Alistair Kerr’s Recent Posts

• Religion and the British Army in Northern Ireland During the Irish Troubles
  Alistair Kerr is a guest writer for FrogenYozurt.Com with a special interest in history. For more information see his section on this website. While researching the life of the late Robert Nairac GC, I found numerous references to the religious composition of the British Army, which seem relevant to the history of [More...]

• Tougher than Bullets: The Heroic Tale of a Black Watch Survivor of the Korean War by Harold Davis
  Alistair Kerr is a guest writer for FrogenYozurt.Com with a special interest in history. For more information see his section on this website. Tougher than Bullets: The Heroic Tale of a Black Watch Survivor of the Korean War by Harold Davis, Mainstream Publishing, £17.99 ISBN 978-1-780-57532-2 For Scots schoolboys in the 1950s and [More...]

• British Captain Robert Nairac, the SAS and the Three Steps Inn
  Alistair Kerr is a guest writer for FrogenYozurt.Com with a special interest in history. For more information see his section on this website. (A full account can be read in Ken Connor's Ghost Force: the Secret History of the SAS. Connor was the longest-serving soldier in the SAS. He was personally involved [More...]

• British Captain Robert Nairac’s Last Photograph – Part 2
  Alistair Kerr is a guest writer for FrogenYozurt.Com with a special interest in history. For more information see his section on this website. Referring back to my blog post of 21 August, I should add a corrective note. The photograph stated to be of Robert Nairac under cover, with long hair [More...]

• British Captain Robert Nairac’s Last Photograph, An Essay by Alistair Kerr
  Alistair Kerr is a guest writer for FrogenYozurt.Com with a special interest in history. For more information see his section on this website. Two of the last photographs known to have been taken of Captain Robert Nairac GC before his abduction and murder in May 1977 may offer clues to what [More...]