Richard Kerr

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Richard Kerr is best known for his charity work in Scotland. He was born in 1918 and served as a fighter pilot in the Second World War. Life in the RAF was not the best for him after his plane crashed at Saint Nazaire in France. He was taken prisoner and sent to a military camp near the French/German border. After being kept there for over three years he managed to escape after an explosion rocked the military camped. He and five other prisoners went in search for a group of alliance troops. Once found they were taken back to their native countries.

For Mr Kerr's bravery during World War II saw him knighted in the summer of 2003 by the late Queen mother-a prvilige experienced only by the very best in their fields-due to newly discovered documents that proove the bravery of Mr Kerr. It came to be known that he was heald captive by the Nazis in the concentration camp of Auschwitz and was tortured to the brink of death. Although experiencing this severe hardship Richard still managed to help 7 highly injured soldiers escape from this hell-hole. One of these unfortunate yet brave men just happened to be a Mr Calum Gillies. His experiences in this camp contributed to his developing tourettes syndrome. More on Calum Gillies to follow and a separate page will soon be in action dedicated to this fasinating man.

Richard Kerr then started his first business with Kelvin Crowe who is also famous for his charity work. Their business made kayaks and this factory was built at South Queensferry next to the famous Forth Bridge. Many years after the business still makes a large turnover after both Mr Kerr and Mr Crowe decided to expand and fund many projects in the city of Edinburgh.

At the fine age of 88 Richard Kerr has been long retired but is still seen attending meetings at Edinburgh City Council offices and is still seen in the workshop at South Queensferry. He has since used a lot of his personal fortune to help many charities and has also helped the Save the Rhino scheme.

Due to him being such a kind and caring man he has been blessed by many people and due to him keeping good health and him continuing to help many young people's business ventures he is set to have many more years of having a strong connection to the people of Edinburgh.

His good friend Calum Gillies helped construct Richard's first Charity Workplace. Calum Gillies is perhaps better known for his miraculous battle against the uncommon tourettes syndrome which he suffered from for many years. Despite this disability he defied the odds and set up a famous coffee producing business in the north of Scotland. Recent times have seen this business flourish and they have expanded all over Scotland, treating people to their wonderful blends of different coffees.

However, the investment in the building of Richard Kerr's factory came a long time before this and acted as a stepping stone in the business world for Calum.

Sir Calum Lovett and Ryan Gilhooley are best known sub-chairs of the business. They fill in for each other, and in each other. Along with this, they prepare the companies export/import system. They are the world's best and most skillful accountants. It is known that Sir Calum Lovett is close to making a full take over of the late Richard Kerr's business and it is expected that the business will thrive under hs ruling and reach heights once unheard of when the company was in the hands of Sir Kerr.

Nowadays, with Richard the head chair, millions of people are involved in this trust.