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General James T. Kerr Twin Distinguished Service Medals Grouping, with boxes for DSMs and one for the Spanish War Service Medal. Present in the group are the DSMs, campaign medals – War With Spain 1898, Philippine Insurrection 1899, and WWI Victory Medal. Only a few spare ribbon bars are in the Spanish War Service Medal box. Also is a small group of uniform insignia for Kerr when a brigadier general in the Adjutant Generals Department; pairs of AGD, an USs, with WWI era service cap eagle insignia. The false embroidered stars are both hallmarked “ROLLED GOLD.” This group comes with a ring binder with about 2 inches of biographical material on Kerr, and close-up photos of the medals showing the numbers on the rim. There are photos of some of the society medals that Kerr received while in service, but were not with the grouping (I have no idea where they went). Condition overall is fine, with some light patina on metal. Boxes are excellent, The image of him in the mount is a photocopy.
James Taggart Kerr (1859 -1949) -graduated USMA Class of 1881. He began his career in the 17th U.S. Infantry, then serving in Dakota Territory, and participated in the Sioux Campaign of 1890-91. By 1897 Kerr had been stationed on many of the old posts from the early Indian Wars days. He served with his regiment in the Philippines from 1899 to 1900 and to 1902 as Asst. Adjt. Gen. as a Lt.Colonel. General Staff Corps 1903 – 1907 at Fort Leavenworth, Ks. and Washington. Then to Manila, PI in 1908 – 1910. Retired as Colonel AGD in 1914, recalled to active duty in 1919, in AGD to 1920, brigadier general. Asst AG July of 1920
Received the DSM while serving with the Adjutant Generals Dept. – “For exceptional meritorious and conspicuous service while in charge of the Enlisted Men’s Division of the AG Office and the recruitment of the Army, and later as executive assistant to The AG of the Army, his sound judgment and unremitting industry were important factors in the efficient administration of the AG’s Department.” (1919 and 1922 (which was a duplicate award, numbers are “1116” and “1603”). He also was awarded two Silver Stars -cited for gallantry at battle of El Caney, Cuba, 1898, and again against insurgent forces at Magalang, Luzon, PI, 1899. He was also a Commander of the Order of Indian Wars of the United States, President of the Society of the Army of Santiago de Cuba.
You don’t see double Distinguished Service Medals awarded to one individual.
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